Other sources state that Baikonur was a name of the Tyuratam region even before the cosmodrome existed.
A special reconnaissance commission considered several possible geographic regions and selected Tyuratam in the Kazakh SSR.
It was supposed to photograph the moon in colour and black and white from 8000 km and 2600 km ranges, then return to earth, landing at Tyuratam only 16 km from the launch pad.
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