Kazakhstan is the ninth wonder of the world. Its territory is full of amazing corners - it is endless steppes, majestic mountains, bottomless lakes, dense forests.
We represent the most beautiful places in our country that everyone should see.
Baikonur is the first and largest missile launch complex. The cosmodrome became the first polygon in the world, from which the first launch of an artificial Earth satellite and manned flight into space. On October 4, 1957, the first artificial Earth satellite was launched from the test site into orbit using the R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile developed by S.P. The royal. On April 12, 1961, the Vostok spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on board. The spaceport is located in the southern part of Kazakhstan on 6717 square meters. km He is currently on loan from the Russian Federation. On the territory of the complex is a museum of the history of cosmonautics, which includes a large building with thousands of exhibits, an open-air exposition with real rocket engines and the Buran space shuttle, as well as the museum’s complex includes the houses of Korolev and Gagarin, where the father of Russian astronautics and first cosmonaut of the world.
