Launch Complex 1

Kazakhstan / Soltustik Kazakstan / Leninogorsk /
 interesting place, 1957_construction, Gagarin
"Gagarin's Start" (Russian: «Гагаринский старт») is a launch site at Baikonur Cosmodrome. In the past it was referred to as Site No.1 and was named after Yuri Gagarin after his spacecraft was launched from there for the world's first human spaceflight.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagarin's_Start
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Coordinates:   45°55'20"N   63°20'27"E