Jonk is a veteran urban explorer, or "urbexer," who estimates he's photographed around 1,500 abandoned places around the world.But few places were more difficult to access than the Buran hangar ...

Exploring the Buran hangar. There has been some suggestion that this video might have been staged or produced in conjunction with the help of Russian or Kazakhstan agents, but I am not so sure.

Unfortunately, in 2002 the hangar storing the Buran collapsed, destroying the lone Soviet space shuttle. About the Author: Harrison Kass .

Photographer Ralph Mirebs visited an abandoned hangar near the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It houses two shuttles (shown) that were part of the ill-fated Buran shuttle programme.

The hangar houses two prototype shuttles that were part of the ill-fated 1980s Buran shuttle programme The shuttles were designed to mimic Nasa's successful Space Shuttles which flew for 30 years ...

Buran was destroyed in 2002 when the hangar housing it collapsed. All images save the one of the hangar wreckage are from Ralph Mirebs’ livejournal page, ...

An Energia rocket was also found in the abandoned hangar. The Soviet space programme was later suspended due to a lack of funds after just the first Buran flight.

In 1976, the Soviet authorities began creating a reusable space system called Energia-Buran. It included the heavy-class launch vehicle Energia and the orbital. ... The An-225 Mriya aircraft near the ...