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Baikonur is a city in Kazakhstan on the northern bank of the Syr Darya river. It is currently leased and administered by the Russian Federation as an enclave until 2050. It was constructed to serve the Baikonur Cosmodrome with administrative offices and employee housing. During the Soviet period, the town was known as Leninsk, and was sometimes referred to as Zvezdograd (). It was officially renamed Baikonur by Russian president Boris Yeltsin on December 20, 1995.

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Baikonur is a city in Kazakhstan on the Syr Darya river that was built to support the nearby Baikonur Cosmodrome with administrative offices and housing for workers. Russia leases and administers the city as an enclave until 2050, and it was officially renamed Baikonur in 1995 after being called Leninsk during the Soviet era.

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Settlement.official_name: Baikonur
Settlement.image_flag: Флаг города Байконур.svg
Settlement.image_seal: Coat of arms Baikonur.svg
Settlement.pushpin_map: Kazakhstan#Asia#Eurasia
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: bottom
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 280
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Kazakhstan
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: City
Settlement.subdivision_name: KazakhstanRussia (administered)
Settlement.established_title2: Founded
Settlement.established_date2: 1955
Settlement.established_title3: Incorporated (city)
Settlement.established_date3: 1966
Settlement.leader_title: Administrator
Settlement.leader_name: Konstantin Dmitrievich Busygin
Settlement.area_total_km2: 57
Settlement.population_as_of: 2020

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Baikonur is a city in Kazakhstan on the northern bank of the Syr Darya river. It is currently leased and administered by the Russian Federation as an enclave until 2050. It was constructed to serve the Baikonur Cosmodrome with administrative offices and employee housing. During the Soviet period, the town was known as Leninsk, and was sometimes referred to as Zvezdograd (). It was officially renamed Baikonur by Russian president Boris Yeltsin on December 20, 1995.

The Russian controlled area is an ellipse measuring east to west by north to south, with the cosmodrome situated at the area's centre.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Baikonur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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