Roscosmos added that the launch site was currently Kazakhstan’s state property that Russia had leased until 2050. The Site No. 1 (or Gagarin's Start) - the oldest launchpad at the Baikonur ...

The Gagarin Start is the oldest launch pad at the Baikonur spaceport, from which a Vostok spacecraft with the world’s first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on board blasted off into outer space NUR ...