I Photographed The Last Soviet Space Shuttles

My name is Dimitri and I am a photographer based in France. I am known for my brand name Jahz (Jahz Design).

I infiltrated a dusty hangar on the steppes of Kazakhstan to capture one of the last remnants of the Cold War cosmos race. The Buran spacecraft was a shuttle developed by the Soviet Union in response to NASA’s space shuttle program. Buran, which means “snowstorm” in Russian, flew one time in 1988.

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Inside a deteriorating hangar at the Baikonur Cosmodrome

I Photographed The Last Soviet Space Shuttles

The last spacecrafts, built by the Soviet Union

I Photographed The Last Soviet Space Shuttles

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