1991, when the soviet union unfortunately collapsed, the largest and most widely used cosmodrome balkanurded up on the territory of a friendly, but different state. of course, in the interests of the national economy , the country's defense capability, and... science, the state must have its own capabilities for launching any useful cargo from its own spaceports. in this sense, plesensk's capabilities are quite limited in terms of energy , and therefore a decision was made to build a new spaceport. a commission was created, which included representatives of both roscosmos and the ministry of defense, which considered various possible options for the location of the new spaceport. five possible locations were selected for consideration, among them, by the way, the possibility of reviving the kapustin test site as a spaceport, from which, in fact, test work began in the missile forces, and then it was used as a cosmodrome, although, unfortunately, it is located, as you know, above industrial facilities, this imposes certain restrictions on the capabilities of these launch sites, therefore,