Plesetsk Cosmodrome - Russia

For more information, visit the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Plesetsk Cosmodrome page at Media inquiries: NTI: CNS: Jason Warburg (jwarburg@, ) CNS: Eva Gudbergsdottir (evag@, ) 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 I