Buran may refer to:
Places
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Buran, Ardabil, a village in Ardabil Province, Iran
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Buran, Mazandaran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
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Buraan, a town in the northern Sanaag region of Somalia
Other uses
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''Buran'' (spacecraft), the Soviet counterpart of the
space shuttle
The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program ...
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Buran programme
The ''Buran'' program (russian: Буран, , "Snowstorm", "Blizzard"), also known as the "VKK Space Orbiter program" (russian: ВКК «Воздушно-Космический Корабль», lit=Air and Space Ship), was a Soviet and later R ...
, the Soviet space shuttle project
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Buran (wind), a wind that blows across eastern Asia
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Boran
Boran (also spelled Buran, Middle Persian: ; New Persian: پوراندخت, ''Pūrāndokht'') was Sasanian queen (or ''banbishn'') of Iran from 630 to 632, with an interruption of some months. She was the daughter of king (or '' shah'') Khos ...
, queen of
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
from 629 to 632
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Buran bint al-Hasan ibn Sahl
Buran bint al-Hasan ibn Sahl ( ar, بوران بنت الحسن بن سهل; 6 December 807 – 21 September 884) also known as Khadija bint al-Hasan ibn Sahl (), was one of the wives of the Abbasid caliph Al-Ma'mun.
Buran was al-Ma'mun's second ...
, consort of Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun
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RSS-40 Buran, a Soviet cruise missile
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Buran eavesdropping device
See also
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Burang (disambiguation)
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Burren (disambiguation)
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