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Buran

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buran [bü′rän]
(meteorology)
A violent northeast storm of south Russia and central Siberia, similar to the blizzard.

Buran 

(Turkic), a snowstorm with a strong wind and a low air temperature. The term “buran” is used, for the most part, in the Asiatic part of the USSR (Siberia and Kazakhstan).



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The Buran has already left the country and reached Rotterdam, Holland, on its way to the Technik Museum in the German city of Speyer.
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