Baikonur
Baikonur (formerly Leninsk) is a city in Kazakstan administered by Russia. It was constructed to service the Baikonur Cosmodrome and was officially renamed Baikonur in the 1990s. The original Baikonur is a mining town a few hundred kilometres northeast.
The fortunes of the city have varied according to those of the Soviet/Russian space program.
