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Exactly 35 years ago, in July 1977, it was formed by a detachment of the test pilots of the complex "A" group special training program "Buran" - the most mystical of the page in the history of space exploration. They said that the test pilots of the project removed the foreign secret services, hinted at the aliens, but the most talked about mysticism. On the "curse" Buran "» ...





When the Americans launched their "shuttle" to the USSR once counted its dangers - the American ship could throw a nuclear warhead over any point of the Soviet Union and protect against such an attack could no air defense. Besides "Shuttle" was theoretically able to fly up to the Soviet military satellites, grab them, immersed in its cargo bay and bring to Earth. It is not surprising that the Union decided - from the Soviet Union to be an adequate response: intelligence officers were instructed to produce drawings of "Shuttle" and engineers to develop their own Soviet shuttle, which is called the "Buran". In fact it was just a reusable space plane, designed for at least 20 flights to transport cargo space large size and weight. And unlike "Burana" from the "Space Shuttle" was available system of unmanned automatic landing. He could fly myself, to stay in the space allotted time and he landed on the airfield.

But it relies on technology developers did not, and soon came the first group of testers "Buran" - in July 1977 for a top secret operation seized 8 pilots. More than 500 people applied when the application, the pilots tried to get into the elite squad - "wolf pack", as they are called by the name of the leader, and then commander of Igor Volkov. Then no one could not assume that Igor Volk would be the only one of the first set, who will live to a ripe old age.

Here it is - the first eight test "Buran" Igor Wolf, Oleg Kanonenko Anatoly Levchenko, Rimantas Stankevicius, Alexander Shchukin, Nikolai Gardeners, Victor Boukreev Alexander Lysenko.



The first losses began even before the official formation of the detachment - May 17, 1977 Victor Boukreev made a training flight on the MiG-25PU, when he caught fire. Pilot still alive dragged out of the plane, but on May 22 Boukreev died in hospital.
Second June 23, 1977 was killed Alexander Lysenko. Together with a partner, they were tested on the MiG-23UB new flight director, and the plane crashed to the ground. The pilot, who had to "Buran" nothing, survived and continued to fly, but Alexander Lysenko died.
8 September 1980 squad lost to Oleg Kanonenko. When taking off from the deck of the cruiser "Minsk" his Yak-38 did not open the nozzle and the plane crashed into the South China Sea. Kanonenko not ejected.

It was announced a new set in the squad, but after the last death among the superstitious pilots were rumors about the "curse" Buran "" and they are not so eager to get into the elite squad - "wolf pack". There have even been failures, but did not want to (or could not) give up the tempting offer: Vladimir Turovets Victor Z, Ural Sultanov Magomed Tolboyev, Sergei Tresvyatskaya Yuri Sheffer and Yuri Prikhodko.



In the wake of Oleg Kanonenko traditionally put the device on the table and glasses for their fallen comrades, and a candidate in the squad Vladimir Turovets wrote a poem on a napkin, which ended with the words "Who's next?". Next came Turovets Vladimir himself, who died February 8, 1981 at the trial of the Mi-8, and it was the fourth death in the squad.
The fact that members of the "wolf pack" are dying one after another, seemed strange to the Central Committee and the KGB GRU, who did not believe in mysticism, nor aliens. But they believed in enemy intelligence services and the special joint commission to re-examine every accident involving Buranovskiye test. The investigation established that all the pilots were killed accidentally, and project continued. Tests "Burana" is nearing completion, when it was decided to start to send into space Buranovskie squad members on the usual "Soyuz", and immediately after landing, put them in chairs of pilots to test whether they can fly a plane after a few days of weightlessness. First into space in 1984 as part of the crew went Dzhanibekova Savitskaya and Igor Volk. The crew landed normally, and Wolf confirmed that the plant "Buran" in manual mode after 12 days of weightlessness, it is possible.

In 1987, a similar program at the next "Soyuz" space flew Anatoly Levchenko. Despite the crash landing and severe injuries, he also successfully completed the experiment. But as a result of a hard landing have Levchenko, a tumor of the brain, and six months later, August 6, 1988, Anatoly Levchenko dies.
Commemoration celebrated in the same officers' club, which commemorated Kanonenko and Turovets and at the table were five empty glasses. Flying in space has not been, and killed five testers "Buran».

Sixth was Alexander Shchukin, that August 18, 1988 crashed sport plane Su-26M in Zhukovsky.
During his funeral at the old year tradition of passing over it in the sky did Rimantas Stankevicius, who two years later on September 9, 1990, is broken on the Su-27 during performances at the air show Salgareda in Italy, and will be the seventh.

In the end, the first flight "Buran" it was decided to send 25 October 1988 without people automatically. For 42 seconds before takeoff the flight was canceled - error mechanism. But there are no problems it is not found and restarted on November 15 fine and landed empty "Buran" perfect. Next flight "Burana" with astronauts already on board, planned for 1991, but the country then was not up to it, and soon was gone and most of the country ...

Reusable "Buran" was a one-time, the program was closed, but the curse has not disappeared. Nikolai Gardeners in late 1977 left the program and was working in another aircraft division. Double ejected from the aircraft accident, their injuries was decommissioned, and died of their effects in 1994. In June 2001, unexpectedly dies Test "Buran" Yuri Sheffer - his heart stopped clot. A month and a half dies from cancer test pilot Yuri Prikhodko.

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March 12, 2002 at Baikonur cosmodrome will die and the only fly in space "Buran", but not the only one: concrete roof assembly and test facility burying himself shuttle, and 8 of the repair team. And with the disappearance of the most powerful and most expensive of the Soviet spaceship disappears and his "curse" - the loss of "Buran" cease and unexpected death of his test.
Do you want to - let's talk about mysticism and the like - let us remember November 15th 1988, the last day in the history of the Soviet Union when the Soviet people experienced the pride of their country ...

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