Tyuratam is a station on the main Moscow to Tashkent railway, located in Kazakhstan. It is near the Baikonur Cosmodrome, a Russian, formerly Soviet Union's spaceport, and near the city of Baikonur (formerly Leninsk), which was constructed to service the cosmodrome.
It was this launch site that Francis Gary Powers, in his U-2, was trying to locate by following railway lines within the Soviet Union. Up until he was shot down the CIA had systematically been tracking over the major rail networks of the Soviet Union in a bid to find the launch site.
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