CHASING BANDOS presents

BURAN

Podcast mini-series

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Launched in the early 1970s and formally suspended in 1993 – Russian Buran programme delivered a shuttle which orbited the Earth on November 15, 1988. It was the only flight of the “Blizzard”. Since then, in the middle of the desert somewhere in Kazakhstan sits and rusts away the “Holy Grail of Urbex” – two shuttles and the space rocket. On the mini-series I interview explorers who made the excruciating journey to witness it for themselves.

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HOW TO GET BURAN 8-PART SERIES?

It's simple! For a price of coffee - £5 - Use PAYPAL to transfer

Please use PAYPAL to transfer £5 to gregabandoned@gmail.com and put a note: BURAN along with your email address. The file containing all Buran episodes will be sent to your email address.

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Episode 1:

Interview with photographer Philip Grossman. Philip shares historical background on Baikanur Cosmodrone and his personal experience of visiting the shuttles (twice), the rocket and he describes his journey through the desert. He also talks about a nuclear testing site located in Kazakhstan – Russian version of Los Alamos.

Episode 2:

Interview with Bart Hendrickx who is the author of the only English book on Buran ‘Energiya-Buran The Soviet Space Shuttle’. Bart comes in to give an extensive history lesson on Baikonur Cosmodrome, Buran Project and provides us with context of what the two shuttles sitting inside abandoned MZK hangar are. He also debunks all the myths surrounding the site.

Episode 3:

Interview with Danish explorer Nick Wander who describes his unforgettable journey through the Kazakhstani steps. Nick got locked up inside Buran hangar when the security came in to check the hangar. All the doors and windows got sealed and he was trapped inside!

Episode 4:

Interview with a French explorer Chico Lakai who describes in details his experience of visiting Buran and the Rocket. Chico also updates us with stories of other Buran explorers and what happened to them.

Episode 5:

Reaction to the graffiti being sprayed all over the Buran shuttles. Number of international explorers come on the podcast to share their reaction to this horrible act of vandalism.

Episode 6:

Two separate talks with Danish explorer Jan Elhøj and Hungarian Ákos. Both share stories about their Buran journey. Jan was one of the first western explorers who went to Buran. Ákos shares his emotive story of exploring the shuttles, meeting other explorers on site and eventually getting caught inside.

Episode 7:

Interview with Russian explorer Yulya who went to see the abandoned space shuttles after they have been sprayed with graffiti. Yulya was the only female in a group of four explorers from Ukraine that went through the harsh summer desert in order to achieve the ultimate urbex dream. She was the first explorer to confirm that the graffiti was painted over.

Episode 8:

Urban explorer Alex Ioannou comes back on the pod – this time as a guest-host – to interview me about my journey to see the abandoned shuttles and the rocket.

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MY BURAN STORY

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MINI-SERIES & SPECIALS