A few years ago, Yerbossyn Meldibekov formulated a metaphor in which Central Asia appeared as a Buran spacecraft that took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome and got lost in space. The exhibition "Buran – Baikonur, ..." is a detailed visual elaboration of the artist’s ideas, the sum of the artist’s principled artistic statements, because in extreme times only statements in principle are required and accepted.