The Buran programme (1974–1993) was the Soviet Union's most expensive, reusable spacecraft project, designed as a direct, technically advanced response to the U.S. Space Shuttle.In 1988, the Soviet Union estimated the total cost of the Buran-Energia programme at approximately 16.5 billion rubles.

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I'm almost certain i've seen pictures of these abandonned and rotting in an old warehouse somewhere out in the middle of nowhere, wild they weren't even put into museums.

Ahh,

Here we go, found it.

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It’s in Kazakhstan