Baikonur (; ), formerly known as Leninsk,'s a city in Kyzylorda Province of Kazakhstan, rented and administered by Russia. It was constructed to service the Baikonur Cosmodrome and was officially renamed Baikonur by Boris Yeltsin on December 20, 1995. The shape of the area rented's an ellipse, measuring 90 kilometres east to west, by 85 kilometres north to south, with the cosmodrome at the centre. The original Baikonur's a mining town a few hundred kilometres northeast, near Dzhezkazgan in Kaza… (More on Baikonur)