Russia will evacuate a village in its far east on 11 August as part of the launch of Russia's first lunar lander mission in nearly half a century, a local official said on Monday.
The Luna-25 lunar lander, Russia's first since 1976, will be launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, some 5 550km east of Moscow, according to Russia's Roscosmos space agency.The residents of the Shakhtinskyi settlement in Russia's Khabarovsk region, southeast of the launch site, will be evacuated early morning on 11 August, as the village lies in the predicted area where the rocket boosters will fall after they separate.
"The mouth of the Umalta, Ussamakh, Lepikan, Tastakh, Saganar rivers and the area of the ferry crossing on the Bureya River fall into the predicted fall zone," Alexei Maslov, head of the Verkhnebureinskyi district in the Khabarovsk region, said on the Telegram messaging app.Russia’s Luna-25 module set to blast off to the Moon
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