The Soviet Union's Buran shuttle only made one flight. It was derided in the West as a copy of the US Space Shuttle, but in reality it was far more than that.
The Twitter thread linked above is a history of the development of the Energia/Buran program with many images and details that I haven't seen before. If you're interested in the history of the Soviet space program, you'll want to read it.
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