Place:Tyuratam, Kzyl-Orda, Kazakhstan

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NameTyuratam
Alt namesLeninsksource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCity
Coordinates45.633°N 63.267°E
Located inKzyl-Orda, Kazakhstan
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Töretam is a station on the main Moscow to Tashkent railway, located in Kazakhstan. The name means "Töre's grave" in the Kazakh language. Töre, or more formally, Töre-Baba, was a noble and descendant of Genghis Khan. Töretam is near the Baikonur Cosmodrome, a Russianformerly Sovietspaceport, and near the city of Baikonur (formerly Leninsk), which was constructed to service the cosmodrome.

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