The city of Baikonur has a number of features as an administrative and territorial unit leased from another state and as administrative and social center for the Baikonur cosmodrome. The presence of the status of “city of federal significance”, “urban citizenship”, which includes citizens of Russia and Kazakhstan in the concept of «resident of the city of Baikonur», Russian jurisdiction within the boundaries of the city and the cosmodrome in the context of increasing ethnic imbalance of the population and socio - economic inequality of carriers of Russian and Kazakhstan citizenship the territory of the city gives rise to problems of interethnic (Russians and Kazakhs, as well as Koreans, Uzbeks, Belarusians, etc.) and interreligious (Orthodox and Muslim) interactions between them. Moreover, in the city there are no special authorities and administrations involved in the implementation of the “Strategy of the state national policy of the Russian Federation”. Monitoring and prevention of interethnic and inter - civil tension are carried out by youth policy. An increase in the institutional presence of Kazakhstan in Baikonur, the division of certain areas of life (for example, school education, medical services) into “Russian” and “Kazakh”, the narrowing of the use of the Russian language by the local Kazakh population and the lack of knowledge of the Kazakh language by the local Russian population deepens the cultural and linguistic boundaries between representatives of different ethnic groups and nationalities. Employees of the BaikonurCosmodrome live in the city, ensuring the implementation of Russian and international space programs. In this regard, ensuring harmonious interethnic relations within the city is not only a matter of providing comfortable conditions for life and relaxation for the personnel of the BaikonurCosmodrome living in it, but also an urgent task of the national security of the Russian Federation.
