I first dicovered the Uragan mini shuttle in Soviet Military Power in the eighties. It would have been launched by Zenit rocket. At the begining of the nineties, I was in several meeting to speak with Russians about studies' contract for Hermes spaceplane. I asked to the russian engineers if Uragan exists? They confirmed several times Uragan program with two model in LII Gromov. Initially, Bor was not a demonstrator for Buran shuttle.
During its training in Star City, French TV filmed cosmonaut J.P. Haigneré with Afanassiev (1994 or 1995?) and this Russian cosmonaut wore a strange badge with its name and the name of unknown cosmonaut. In the patch there was also a Bor-like lifting-body, the Uragan mini shuttle.
Many projects should be taken into account by historians, for example the sprawling Aerospaceplane program in the United States in the 1960s, or the NDV (Nasp Derived Vehicle), but also the strange French space plane project Veras which remains classified for 50 years ...