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[i]On 22 June 2011 during the day Buran "Article 2.01" (the third flight article whose production was aborted at stage of 50% completion) was put on barge and sailed along the Moscow river to town of Zhukovsky where it will supposedly undergo a restoration to be prepared for display at a biannual MAKS air show. Before 2004, Buran 2.01 was stored in a warehouse of Tushino Machine Building plant. In 2004 private entrepreneur Igor Rudinsky, owner of "SIA International" pharmaceutical company purchased the partly disassembled airframe from Tushino plant for $120,000 and moved it to a pier on the bank of Khimki water reservoir where it sat until recently, suffering from annual cycle of weather and occasionally, from vandals.[/i]
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