Baikonur Cosmodrome

The Baikonur Cosmodrome is a cosmodrome located in Kazahkstan. It is the largest space launch facility in the world. It appears in a campaign mission of Call of Duty: Black Ops, "Executive Order".

Role in Black Ops
In Call of Duty: Black Ops, a Soviet space rocket was to be launched from here. It was called Soyuz 2. The launch would be watched personally by General Nikita Dragovich and his second-in-command, Lev Kravchenko. However, knowing Dragovich was here, U.S. President John F. Kennedy authorized a mission to eliminate him and destroy the rocket, codenamed Operation Flashpoint. Things went wrong, though. A double agent working with the Ascension Group, former Nazi scientists taken in by the Soviets, Grigori Weaver, was captured by Kravchenko.

Two operatives of the CIA, Alex Mason and Frank Woods, went in to support Weaver. When they arrived, they saw that he had been captured, and they watched through binoculars as Colonel Kravchenko stabbed Weaver in the eye, gouging it out. Woods and Mason raided the center with Joseph Bowman and Terrance Brooks, who had already infiltrated the facility. After their cover was blown, they rescued Weaver, destroyed Soyuz 2, and presumbaly killed Dragovich. It would be 5 years later, however, that SOG would find out that he was in fact, alive, and not in his personal limo, the one the CIA team destroyed, thinking Dragovich was inside.