Mathias Rust Square was jokingly referred to by Muscovites as Sheremetyevo-3 (Sheremetyevo-1 and -2 being the two terminals at Moscow's main international airport). At the end of 1987, the police radio code used by law enforcement officers in Moscow was allegedly updated to include a code for an aircraft landing. Shortly after the incident, SubLogic, the original publishers of the "Flight Simulator" franchise, issued a scenery disk that expanded the original program's coverage area to include the Eastern Bloc. A challenge in the expansion pack was to land in Red Square as Rust had just done. Following the 20th anniversary of his
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