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Baikonur
Baikonur (; ), formerly known as Leninsk (also, see Tyuratam), is a city of republic significance in Kazakhstan on the right bank of the Syr Darya river, rented and administered by the Russian Federation. It was constructed to service the Baikonur Cosmodrome and was officially renamed Baikonur by Russian president Boris Yeltsin on December 20, 1995. During the Soviet period, it was sometimes referred to as Zvezdograd (Star City).
In 2009, the population of Baikonur was while in 1999, it was
The rented area is an ellipse measuring 90 km east to west by 85 km north to south, with the cosmodrome situated at the area's centre.
Baikonur (Almaty Metro)
Baikonur is a station on Line 1 of the Almaty Metro. The station opened on December 1, 2011.