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Buran, Ardabil Buran ( fa, بوران, also Romanized as Būrān) is a village in Dursun Khvajeh Rural District, in the Central District of Nir County, Ardabil Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Pers ...

, a village in Ardabil Province, Iran *

Buran, Mazandaran Buran ( fa, بوران, also Romanized as Būrān) is a village in Dasht-e Sar Rural District, Dabudasht District, Amol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is ...

, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran *

Buraan Buraan, also known as Hiil Buraan or Hiil Borraan, is a town in the eastern Sanaag region of Somaliland/ Somalia. It is effectively controlled by Puntland, but it is a disputed area with Somaliland. Overview Buraan is situated in eastern Sana ...

, a town in the northern Sanaag region of Somalia

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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 ...

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 *

Buran (wind) The buran ( fa, بوران, russian: буран) is a wind which blows across Iran, eastern Asia, specifically Xinjiang, Siberia, and Kazakhstan. Over the tundra, it is also known as , purga. It is a wind of cold air, sometimes very strong, charact ...

, a wind that blows across eastern Asia *

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 *

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 *

RSS-40 Buran The Buran cruise missile, designation RSS-40, was a Soviet intercontinental cruise missile by Myasishchev capable of carrying a 3,500 kg hydrogen bomb payload. The project was canceled before flight tests began. It is unrelated to the late ...

, a Soviet cruise missile *

Buran eavesdropping device A laser microphone is a surveillance device that uses a laser beam to detect sound vibrations in a distant object. It can be used to eavesdrop with minimal chance of exposure. The object is typically inside a room where a conversation is taking p ...

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