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. The defendant's mother, Monika Rust, talking to her son's lawyer Vladimir Yakovlev.
- 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: 87-12445, 35 mm film
- Media: JPEG, 5407x3593px, 15.1Mb