Plesetsk Cosmodrome - Russia

For more information, visit the Nuclear Threat Initiative's Plesetsk Cosmodrome page at http://www.nti.org/facilities/941/ Media inquiries: NTI: www.nti.org/newsroom CNS: Jason Warburg ([email protected], 831.647.3516) CNS: Eva Gudbergsdottir ([email protected], 831.647.6606) In 1957 Plesetsk was chosen as site of first operational Soviet ICBM base. Its location in a remote site in the Northern Russian forest was necessary because it was then one of the few parts of the Soviet Union where the world's first ICBM, the R-7, could be based to hit targets in the United States.