Hearing the case of amateur pilot Mathias Rust from the Federal Republic of Germany at an open session of the Criminal Cases Panel of the Supreme Court of the USSR. On May 28, 1987, Rust violated Soviet airspace and landed on Moscow's Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge. Photo: Defendant Mathias Rust with his parents, Monika and Karl-Heinz Rust, in the courtroom.
- Categories: Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts & War, Disasters & Accidents, Crime, Law & Justice
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Event date: 02.09.1987
- Date published: 22.12.2023
- Author: Yuryi Abramochkin
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: 87-12414, 35 мм цветной негатив
- Media: JPEG, 5325x3544px, 17.8Mb