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. Representatives of the press outside the court building.
- Categories: Politics, Crime, Law & Justice, Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts & War, Disasters & Accidents
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Event date: 02.09.1987
- Date published: 20.12.2023
- Author: Yuryi Abramochkin
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: 87-12548, 35 mm film
- Media: JPEG, 5360x3559px, 14Mb