Leaders meet at the far-eastern base, which most recently hosted the ill-fated launch of the Luna-25 moon spacecraft
at Russia’s most modern space rocket launch site, set amongst the forests of eastern Russia.
Putin ordered the construction of the cosmodrome to reduce reliance on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which gained independence after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.There was once a Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile base known as Svobodny 18 just a few kilometres from the Vostochny complex. That base shut down in 1993.
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