Tyuratam
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Kazakhstan /
Soltustik Kazakstan /
Leninogorsk /
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/ Soltustik Kazakstan
/ Leninogorsk
, 2 km from center (Лениногорск)
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Tyuratam (or Turatam) is a station on the main Moscow to Tashkent railway, located in Kazakhstan. The name is a word in the Kazakh language and means "Töre's grave"; Töre, or more formally, Töre-Baba, was a noble, a descendant of Genghis Khan. Tyuratam is near the Baikonur Cosmodrome, a Russian - formerly Soviet - spaceport, and near the city of Baikonur (formerly Leninsk), which was constructed to service the cosmodrome.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyuratam
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 45°39'3"N 63°18'41"E
- Dyurmentyube 27 km
- Keme-Salgan 36 km
- Baykonur 320 km
- Korgantas 412 km
- Ulytau 436 km
- Water tower 0.3 km
- Level crossing 1.5 km
- Level crossing 1.5 km
- Kazakhs Cemetery 2.1 km
- Looks like demolished site 2.4 km
- Site 22: Electric Transformer Yard 3.8 km
- Cemetery 4.5 km
- Site 23: Orbital Tracking Station NIP-5 6.2 km
- Site 21 (IP-4 Vega Tracking Station) 6.2 km
- Baikonur Cosmodrome 22 km