According to Roskosmos, Russia's space agency, Russia is to build a new space centre in the Far East, but will continue to use Kazakhstan's Baikonur launch site until at least 2020.
"We are currently considering the Amur Region in the Far East as the main location for a new launch site" - Anatoly Perminov, the space agency chief.
Perminov had previously said that construction of a new launch facility would only begin after a new type of spacecraft had been built.
