A public session of the Criminal Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court hearing the case of Matthias Rust, a West German amateur pilot who flew a single-engine Cessna to Moscow and landed on the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge on May 28, 1987, breaching Soviet air space without authorization. Vladimir Andreyev, senior assistant to the USSR Prosecutor General, in the courtroom.
- Categories: Crime, Law & Justice, Disasters & Accidents, Unrest, Conflicts & War, Human Interest
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Event date: 02.09.1987
- Date published: 15.12.2023
- Author: Yuryi Abramochkin
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: 87-12430, 35 mm film
- Media: JPEG, 3553x5313px, 15.2Mb