“A decision has been made to refuel and then launch the rocket,” RIA Novosti quotes the press service of the Roscosmos state corporation.
The rocket is decorated with Khokhloma patterns as part of the celebration of the 800th anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod in 2021.
Patterned stickers are affixed to the side blocks of the first stage and third stage.
Earlier it was reported that the general director of the state corporation Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin said that in 2022 it is planned to launch four Soyuz rockets from the Kourou cosmodrome in French Guiana.