In the Kazakh steppe, near Zhezkazgan, the descent module of the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft successfully landed with three crew members aboard—Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikayev, and NASA astronaut Christopher Williams, according to the website infohub.kz.
Before returning to Earth, the crew held a traditional ceremony to hand over command of the Russian segment of the ISS. Sergey Kud-Sverchkov passed the station leadership to cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov. As tradition dictates, the new commander was given a symbolic key to the station, and the ceremony concluded with the ringing of the ship's bell.
After that, preparations for return began. The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft undocked from the Russian Rassvet module on the ISS and headed for Earth. Roscosmos stated: "At 10:03 a.m. Moscow time, the spacecraft together with the ISS-74 crew undocked from the Rassvet module of the Russian segment of the ISS."
After re-entering the atmosphere, the descent module landed near Zhezkazgan. The landing was normal, and the crew was met by search and rescue teams.
Kazakhstan remains one of the key locations in global human spaceflight: crews have been launching to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for decades.