Visit to Baikonur

Post by **steven** » Sat Jun 08, 2019 3:51 am

The answer to your 3 questions is here: https://caravanistan.com/tour/baikonur- ... rt-3-days/

I'd copy-paste it but it changes often so I'd rather refer to the site so future visitors are not confused.

OWNER · Post by **OWNER** » Tue Dec 08, 2020 3:22 am

I had an excursion to Baikonur - a city and a cosmodrome. It was a personal tour, May 2019. On my own car from Almaty, firstly a tour of the cosmodrome, then a city tour. All this took half a day and cost about 8,000 Russian rubles. All permits I made out myself through Roskosmos in advance, without any travel agencies. My trip story is here. It is written in Russian, Google Translator will help you.

If you want to see the city of Baikonur only, contact the tourist office of the city of Baikonur, they will make you a pass (2,000 Russian rubles approximately).

This is a car ride through the spaceport.

https://youtu.be/zVNuDcCwKZU

It's a car ride through the city.

https://youtu.be/u3aS7BA-XqU

OWNER · Post by **OWNER** » Wed Apr 12, 2023 7:38 am

It is a holiday today. Cosmonautics Day. Many years ago, on April 12, 1961, Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin, a citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, made the first space flight in the history of mankind.

Picture of rice grains, which depicts Yu.A. Gagarin and S.P. Korolev.

The photos were taken at the Baikonur Cosmodrome Museum (site No. 2) in 2019.

Lagerfeld · Post by **Lagerfeld** » Sat Apr 15, 2023 2:21 pm

OWNER wrote: . . . If you want to see the city of Baikonur only, contact the tourist office of the city of Baikonur, they will make you a pass (2,000 Russian rubles approximately).

So, when I understand this right, it is not possible just to walk into the city of Baikonur and to look around for one day?

OWNER · Post by **OWNER** » Sun Apr 16, 2023 2:37 am

Yes, you understand correctly.

Lagerfeld · Post by **Lagerfeld** » Sun Apr 16, 2023 11:14 am

Ok, when I've arrived in Almaty - if I ever arrive there ? - I will talk to my friends to find an agency to organise a permit for this place.
Thank's a lot.

Lagerfeld · Post by **Lagerfeld** » Tue Apr 25, 2023 2:23 am

When I was on my way from Aktobe to Shymkent I left the highway and went a few KM to Baikonur.
When I came to the gate of the town an officer or soldier came to me and said:
"Zakryto gorod - nado specialny propusk"

This was all and I left this place again.

OWNER · Post by **OWNER** » Tue Apr 25, 2023 7:43 am

Lagerfeld wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 25, 2023 2:23 am
...When I came to the gate of the town an officer or soldier came to me and said: "Zakryto gorod - nado specialny propusk"...

Hi Tony!
Why are you so distrustful? )) I told you about Baikonur - you can't drive just like that. On the other hand, you have your own experience now. )) It's good that you tried to visit the city of Baikonur. There are Kazakh guards and they just sent you back. At the checkpoint of the Baikonur cosmodrome there is a Russian guard. I'm afraid to even imagine what they would do with such a "Eurospy" like you. ))))

By car at the Baikonur Cosmodrome (DVR)
https://youtu.be/zVNuDcCwKZU

Gate to the city of Baikonur.

Lagerfeld · Post by **Lagerfeld** » Wed Apr 26, 2023 2:50 am

OWNER wrote:Why are you so distrustful? . . . On the other hand, you have your own experience now.

I'm not really distrustful, and, yes, I wanted to make my own experience.
The gate is only a few KM from the highway, so I took a short extra-trip to the town.

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