Where, in parallel with the construction of Baikonur, was a false wooden spaceport built? Detailed answer

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Where, in parallel with the construction of Baikonur, was a false wooden spaceport built?

When in the 1950s it was decided to build a cosmodrome in the Kazakh steppes, in order to mislead a potential enemy, another cosmodrome was built - a wooden one - in the village of Baikonur in the Karaganda region.

After the launch of the Vostok-1 spacecraft with Gagarin on board, this name in print passed to the real cosmodrome, located 300 km from this village.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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