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Mathias Rust

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Mathias Rust (born 1 June 1968) is a German aviator known for his flight that ended with a landing near Red Square in Moscow on 28 May 1987. Then a teenage amateur pilot, he flew from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow, without authorization. According to Russian claims he was tracked several times by Soviet Air Defence Forces and civilian air traffic controllers, as well as Soviet Air Force interceptor aircraft. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mathias Rust has received more than 1,284,829 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia. Mathias Rust is the 20th most popular pilot (down from 18th in 2019), the 2,230th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,916th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Pilot.

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  • 55.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Mathias Rust ranks 20 out of 71. Before him are Chuck Yeager, Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi, Marina Raskova, Joseph Kittinger, Valery Chkalov, and René Fonck. After him are Claire Lee Chennault, Janina Lewandowska, Vladimir Ilyushin, Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Amy Johnson, and Amet-khan Sultan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Mathias Rust ranks 58. Before him are Sam Rockwell, Aaron Eckhart, Hajime Moriyasu, Terry Crews, Slaven Bilić, and Marc Anthony. After him are Larry Sanger, Tracy Morgan, Stefan Effenberg, Patricia Arquette, Sidse Babett Knudsen, and Thom Yorke.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Mathias Rust ranks 2,230 out of 7,253. Before him are Katarina Witt (1965), Lilly Reich (1885), Hans Loritz (1895), Willi Münzenberg (1889), C. W. Ceram (1915), and Ernest Casimir I, Count of Nassau-Dietz (1573). After him are Fred Uhlman (1901), Hermann Ehrhardt (1881), Andreas Cellarius (1596), Rudolf Schmidt (1886), Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1779), and Floris III, Count of Holland (1141).

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Among PILOTS In Germany

Among pilots born in Germany, Mathias Rust ranks 4. Before him are Adolf Galland (1912), Ernst Udet (1896), and Hermann Graf (1912). After him are Helmut Wick (1915), and Gotthard Handrick (1908).

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