Aerial photography by Nikita Popov   Baikonur, formerly known as Leninsk (also, see Tyuratam), is a city in Kazakhstan, rented and administered by the Russian Federation. It was constructed to service the Baikonur Cosmodrome and was officially ren...

The monument to the Soyuz carrier rocket in the city of Baikonur was installed in 1980, in honor of the 25th anniversary of the cosmodrome.

Valentin Petrovich Glushko was a Soviet engineer, and designer of rocket engines during the Soviet/American Space Race.

StarTrek 2018: car expedition St. Petersburg - Baikonur   27 May 2018, right on the city of Saint Petersburg’s 315th official birthday, a car expedition started at the doorstep of the Valentin Glushko Museum of Cosmonautics and Rocket Technology t...