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. Robert Tikhomirov, member of the USSR Supreme Court, presiding over the trial.
- 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: 87-12437, 35 mm film
- Media: JPEG, 3612x5380px, 16.1Mb