Rare 100% original photo album Cosmos Soviet Union Rocket Cosmodrome USSR. Photo album with photographs of the City of Mirny Cosmodrome, public events, flora and fauna, a meeting of the military, and more… City of Mirny – Prior to the construction of the Angara facility, later on the landfill, the cosmodrome, at the southern tip of the modern city, the village of Pletsy was located with a post station on Petrovsky Trakt. At the northern end of the modern city, there was the village of Rosin Plant, in which a rosin and turpentine plant operated from 1927 to 1958. The village was settled by 1960. The new settlement arose in 1957 as a military camp for intercontinental ballistic missiles. Subsequently, on the basis of the connection, a test site was first created, and later the Plesetsk cosmodrome.