The space center's Hiking Federation mountaineers will climb the peak, 3,867 meters high, in the Maloalmatinskoye Gorge, May 22, to make a stone pyramid inscribed, 50th Baikonur Anniversary Peak, and hoist the town flag, he said to Novosti.
The team of fifteen-Space Troops commissioned officers making a majority-will precede the venture with several training climbs to blaze an easy route, by which any amateur will be able to climb the Baikonur Peak. The team also intends to climb the Great Patriotic War Peak close by, 4,050 meters high.
The newly named mountain will come as memento of sensational achievements of the world's first cosmonaut settlement.
Russia has been renting the space center from Kazakhstan ever since the Soviet Union collapsed.
