“We are working on this issue with the presidential administration, but in order to rename it - we are talking about changing the name of the project of the Baiterek air defense complex to the Nazarbayevsky start” - this needs to be amended in the intergovernmental agreement and this draft protocol is being worked out. If we don’t have any objections from the presidential administration inside, then this protocol will be signed by the end of the year, ”RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
Nurguzhin noted that this issue, in particular, will be considered by the Parliament of Kazakhstan.
In September, Roscosmos state corporation announced that the Soyuz-6 and Soyuz-5 rocket-space complex for launching promising medium and light heavy carrier rockets from Baikonur will be named in honor of the first president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev.