title: Soviet airspace violations
text: # Soviet airspace violations
  
  A Soviet airspace violation may refer to:
  
  * The hundreds of Nazi prewar incursions into Soviet airspace before Operation Barbarossa
  * 1960 U-2 incident when a spy plane was shot down over Soviet airspace
  * Seaboard World Airlines Flight 253, a 1968 forced landing on Etorofu Island
  * Korean Air Lines Flight 902, a 1978 forced landing on a frozen Soviet lake near Finnish border
  * Korean Air Lines Flight 007, 1983 shootdown of a Boeing 747 over Sakhalin Island
  * Mathias Rust, landing a Cessna 172 in Red Square
  