Sights of city and cosmodrome Baikonur.

“That’s what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then dying in the space between your finger and my skin. Sometimes I forget” 

Iain Thomas. «I Wrote This For You».

Baikonur Launch Tour.

We hope, that the information which we give below, Baikonur will help you for preparation up of programs on the cosmodrome. 

For registration of the sanction to visiting of the cosmodrome Baikonur it is necessary to give the following information on tourists:

Name, last name, date and place of birth, passport number, place of passport issuance and passport validity, nationality, home address, place of work and post, city where Kazakh visa will be obtained, dates of travel, terms of visit to Baikonur.

Foreign citizens whose country is friendly accept applications 30 days in advance, both for citizens of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Non-friendly countries can only get on city tours, accepting applications for them 45 days in advance.

For the different reasons restrictions in the sanction of tourists to visiting of the cosmodrome Baikonur are possible.

Schedule of trains of Almaty - train station Tyura-Tam:

Train 7 «Almaty - Moscow», departure from station of Almaty-II, at 06.22, departure on odd days, arrival on station Tyura-Tam at 08.40.

Train 23 «Almaty - Aktobe», departure from station Amaty-I at 14.08, departure daily, arrival on station Tyura-Tam  at 20.33.

Train 77 f « Almaty - Atyrau», departure from station Amaty-Ii at 18.48, departure on odd days, arrival on station Tyura-Tam at 23.02.

Train 377 «Almaty - Mangyshlak», departure from station Amaty-Ii at 21.40, departure daily, arrival on station Tyura-Tamat 04.54.

Train 379 «Almaty - Uralsk», departure from station Amaty-Ii at 16.03, departure on even days, arrival on station Tyura-Tam at 02.16.

Information:

It is almost impossible to buy railway tickets from Tyura-Tam train station. Station is small and tickets on transit trains can not be booked. It is possible to buy a ticket without a seat but this service is not guaranteed.