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  • ...рт}}, ''Gagarinskij start'') is a launch site at [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]] in [[Kazakhstan]], used for the [[Soviet space program]] and now managed by [[ ...e world's first human spaceflight made by [[Yuri Gagarin]] on [[Vostok 1]] in 1961, the site was referred to as '''Site No.1''' ({{lang|ru|Площадк
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  • ...Scientists (FAS)|accessdate=19 July 2014}}</ref> The spaceport is located in the [[Kazakh Steppe|desert steppe]] of [[Baikonur]], about {{convert|200|km ...cosmodrome at the centre. It was originally built by the [[Soviet Union]] in the late 1950s as the base of operations for the [[Soviet space program]].
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  • ...53 plan to dramatically boost the Soviet Union’s agricultural production in order to alleviate the food shortages plaguing the Soviet populace. ...mabay Shayakhmetov]], played down the potential yields of the virgin lands in Kazakhstan: he did not want Kazakh land under Russian control.<ref>
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  • ...ame = Павлодар <!-- for cities whose native name is not in English --> |image_caption = Mashkhur Jusup Central Mosque in Pavlodar
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