However the development of Svobodny was subsequently ended in 2007 in favour of a totally new space port, the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
The breakup of the Soviet Union left the primary cosmodrome, to be used by the successor state Russia, at Baikonur in a foreign country, Kazakhstan.
[1] In the summer of 1994 president Yeltsin visited the town of Blagoveshensk and the modification of the launch pads in the site began shortly after.
[2] On 1 March 1996, the Russian president issued a decree formally declaring the site as a cosmodrome.
According to the Russian press, in the previous three years, government investments in Svobodny reached 350 million rubles.