Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The Agency for External Labor Migration, the Ministry of Employment and Labor Relations and the Russian Center for the Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure (TsENKI) agreed to send citizens of Uzbekistan to the construction of the Vostochny cosmodrome. Sputnik reported.

Uzbekistanis will be attracted to the cosmodrome as part of a pilot organized recruitment.

Competitions among future labor migrants for work at TsENKI facilities have already been held in several regions of the republic.