Gopher finds home near Soyuz rocket launch pad in Kazakhstan

Video of a gopher living under the rocket launch pad at Baikonur has become an internet sensation.

A video of a gopher living under the rocket launch pad at Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan has become an internet sensation in the former Soviet Union.

The footage was shot by TSENKI Baikonur - a department of Russian official space agency responsible for Baikonur launches.

The YouTube clip, called "He lives at Baikonur cosmodrome", has been watched by more than 140,000 people to date.

A trio of Russian, Japanese and US astronauts blasted off from Baikonur aboard a Soyuz spaceship for a four-month mission on the International Space Station only last Sunday.