Buran

As with the Strela before it, the Buran also takes its name from a chapter of the Soviet space program: Buran was the USSR's reusable orbital shuttle, which made its only flight in 1988. Poljot used this name for a line of manual chronographs based on the 3133 caliber, offered with a chrome-plated steel case of about 38 mm and a white two-counter dial, in a more formal and less markedly military style than the Aviator, while sharing the same mechanical heart.

The Buran also stands out for the variety of complications available on the 3133 base caliber: besides the standard chronograph version, Poljot offered variants with a moon phase (caliber 31679) and a day/night indicator (caliber 31682), testifying to the versatility of a movement developed in the 1970s and made widely available from 1983. Some of these more elaborate variants were also marketed under dedicated commercial names, as in the case of certain moon-phase editions sold under the "Basilika" name.

The Buran name also followed Poljot's fragmented fate after the historic factory's bankruptcy in 2004: rights to the brand passed to Volmax, which in subsequent years moved part of production to Switzerland, adopting an aesthetic closer to Western watchmaking standards than the original Soviet approach — the same path already followed by the Aviator brand, and a further sign of just how complex and fragmented the legacy of the historic Poljot is today.