Mathias Rust Mathias Rust Mathias Rust (born 1 June 1968) is a German aviator known for his illegal landing near Red Square in Moscow on 28 May 1987. An amateur pilot, the teenager flew from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow, being tracked several times by Soviet air defence and interceptors. The Soviet fighters never received permission to shoot him down, and several times his aeroplane was mistaken for a friendly aircraft. He landed on Vasilevsky Descent next to Red Square near the Kremlin in the capital of the Soviet Union. Rust said he wanted to create an "imaginary bridge" to the East, and
Rust Never Sleeps tells me more about my life, my country and rock & roll than any music I've heard in years." "Rust Never Sleeps" was voted the second best album of 1979 in "The Village Voice"s annual Pazz & Jop critics poll. Christgau, the poll's creator, ranked it second on his own list for the poll, as did fellow critic Greil Marcus. The album also won "Rolling Stone" magazine's 1979 critics poll for Album of the Year. In a decade-end list for "The Village Voice", Christgau named it the ninth best album of the 1970s. In 2003, "Rust Never Sleeps" was ranked