Photo tour to launch of the Soyuz spacecraft

Transfer to the city, accommodation in a hotel, evening walk around the city, dinner at the Baikonur restoran. Overnight at the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel, then transfer to the cosmodrome. At the cosmodrome we will visit the museum of the history of the cosmodrome, the museum presents various exhibits related to space and the Russian space program. Next, we will move through the territory of the cosmodrome to Site No. 2 where the Saturn Measuring Complex is located (24 km), here we will inspect this complex. Return to Baikonur (12 km). Lunch at a restaurant in the city.

After lunch, a city tour, visiting such places as: the museum of the city and the Baikonur cosmodrome, the monument to the builders of the cosmodrome, the monument to V. I. Lenin, the city Arbat, the monument to S.P. Korolev, Proton rocket mock-up, Soyuz rocket mock-up, monument to Yuri Gagarin, monument to the Glory of the Builders of Space, city mosque, monument to the first steam locomotive of the cosmodrome, mock-up of the nuclear missile S-15A15, Shubnikov Recreation Park, memorial to the deceased testers, the temple of the Russian Orthodox Church, the bazaar of the city, monuments to AN-12 and LI aircraft-2. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel, then transfer to the cosmodrome to Site No. 17 at the Cosmonaut Hotel. Cosmonauts live in the hotel before the launch of the Soyuz spacecraft. Here we will visit: cosmonauts Alley, where the tree that Yuri Gagarin planted grows, other trees that cosmonauts planted grow here. Visiting the cosmonauts' press conference, seeing the cosmonauts off to the launch complex, where a rocket with a Soyuz spacecraft awaits them.

Transfer: Baikonur city – Site No. 254 (Soyuz Complex) (34 km). Next move: site No. 254 (Soyuz Assembly and Testing Building) – Energia Buran command post (7 km). Transfer: Energia Buran command post - site No. 31 (Launch Observation Area) (42 km). OBSERVATION OF THE LAUNCH OF THE ROCKET. Return to the city of Baikonur (55 km). Lunch at the cosmodrome, dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Breakfast in the hotel, departure from the city of Baikonur further according to the approved program. The end of the program.

The cost of the program (KZT) per person:
1 person . – 2 397 800
2 people . – 1 430 700
3 people . – 1 145 700
4 people . – 1 062 100
5 people . – 946 200
6 people . – 881 600
7 people . – 820 800
8 people . – 811 300

The price includes:
visiting the city and the Baikonur cosmodrome according to the program; all ground crossings; guide; accommodation at the Tsentralnaya hotel for 3 nights *** (in 2-bed standard rooms with breakfast); permission for photo and video shooting: entrance tickets; permits to special zones; conference with an astronaut: guide consultations.

The price does not include:
airline tickets; tips; porter services; medical expenses and insurance; additional excursions not included in the tour program; personal expenses, such as excess or baggage placement; laundry; telephone; alcoholic beverages; mini-bar and other services in hotel rooms; tips for personal services; visa payment.

Surcharge for 1-bed accommodation (for 1 person) (KZT): 127 300
Additional payment for meals for 1 person (KZT): Lunches, dinners - 102,600: dinners - 57,000
https://www.nationalbank.kz/?docid=747&switch=russian - on this link you can see the official ratio of KZT to the US dollar.

Note:

The launch dates of the rocket can be changed by the State Corporation for Space Activities "Roscosmos". The Silk Road Adventures travel company is not responsible for these changes. In case of refusal of services for an existing tour at the Baikonur cosmodrome, we will refund you the previously made payment, except for the funds spent on services.

Please note that the Baikonur Cosmodrome is a protected area with a special access regime. Unlike our other programs and tours, the schedule of all movements around the cosmodrome according to the Baikonur tour program is connected with the time of the rocket launch, and all tourists must follow this schedule.

Attention:

A visit to Gagarin's gazebo on the 2nd day of the tour, on the territory of a military unit on the banks of the Syr-Darya River, is additionally negotiated, a special permit from the military garrison of Baikonur is required for this. The gazebo on the banks of the Syr-Darya River is an open wooden veranda on the closed, protected territory of the "General Zero Quarter".

Here, in April 1961, the members of the state commission met with a detachment of cosmonauts. During the meeting, Yuri Gagarin was approved as the first pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR. Previously, the gazebo was located near the shore of the Syr Darya. By 2007, the gazebo was rebuilt anew on the old foundation, architectural features are preserved.