For propulsion on final approach, the Buran was designed to incorporate two Saturn AL-31 jet engines situated on either side of the shuttle’s tailfin. However, for the Buran’s only flight ...

Buran was copied from the Shuttle - there's several concrete mentions of that in memoirs. They didn't manage to copy it 1:1 because of the traditional issues with Soviet engines - they weighted ...

Ekaterinburg’s aviation and military museum complex is preparing to undertake restoration of an orbiter from the Soviet Union’s Buran space shuttle programme, six months after the vehicle’s ...