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3 unusual facts about Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic


Progress 1

Progress 1 was launched at 08:24:40 UTC on 20 January 1978, atop a Soyuz-U 11A511U carrier rocket flying from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.

Progress 2

Progress 2 was launched at 11:26:16 UTC on 7 July 1978, atop a Soyuz-U 11A511U carrier rocket flying from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.

Progress 3

Progress 3 was launched at 22:31:22 UTC on 7 August 1978, atop a Soyuz-U 11A511U carrier rocket flying from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.


Akhmed Zakayev

Akhmed Zakayev was born in the settlement of Kirovskiy, in the Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union, which is now in Almaty Province, in Kazakhstan; his family was deported by Stalin's regime along with the rest of the Chechens in 1944.

Aslan Maskhadov

On 21 September 1951, Aslan Aliyevich Maskhadov was born in the Karagandy Province of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) of the Soviet Union, in the small village of Shakai, during the mass deportation of the Chechen people ordered in 1944 by Joseph Stalin.

Gabit Musirepov

People's Writer of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, President of the Kazakhstan Union of Writers and member of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences.

Gagarin's Start

A special reconnaissance commission considered several possible geographic regions and selected Tyuratam in the Kazakh SSR.

Nikolay Vladimirovich Shipil

Nikolay Vladimirovich Shipil (February 25 1955, Takhtabrod, Chistopolsky District, Kokchetav region, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union).


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