Edvard Rusjan was an ItaloSlovenian flight pioneer and airplane constructor. He died in an airplane crash in Belgrade.
Rusjan was born in Trieste, then the major port of AustriaHungary . His parents were both natives of the Gorizia and Gradisca region his father, Franc Rusjan, was a Slovene, and his mother, Grazia Cabas, was Friulan. Rusjan spent his childhood and adolescence in Gorizia, in the suburb of Rafut.
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