Gherasim Rudi (4 March 1907 in Sărăţei – 26 June 1982 in

Chișinău Chișinău ( , , ), also known as Kishinev (russian: Кишинёв, r=Kishinjóv ), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Republic of Moldova. The city is Moldova's main industrial and commercial center, and is located in the ...

) also

Russified Russification (russian: русификация, rusifikatsiya), or Russianization, is a form of cultural assimilation in which non-Russians, whether involuntarily or voluntarily, give up their culture and language in favor of the Russian cultur ...

as Gerasim Yakovlevich Rud () was a

Moldavian SSR The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic ( ro, Republica Sovietică Socialistă Moldovenească, Moldovan Cyrillic: ) was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union which existed from 1940 to 1991. The republic was formed on 2 August 194 ...

politician and member of the

Moldovan resistance during World War II The Moldovan resistance during World War II opposed Axis-aligned Romania and Nazi Germany, as part of the larger Soviet partisan movement. The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR), presently Moldova, had been created in August 1940 after a ...

. Rudi was born in Sărăţei,

Rîbnița District The Rîbnița District ( ro, Raionul Rîbnița; russian: Рыбницкий район; uk, Рибницький район) is an administrative district of Transnistria (''de facto'') in Moldova (''de jure''). Its seat is the city of Rîbnița ...

. He died on 26 June 1982, in Chişinău. Rudi was the Prime Minister of Moldavian SSR (5 January 1946 – 23 January 1958); until 4 April, the name was Chairmen of the Council of People's Commissars. Rudi signed the ruling concerning the deportation of more than 40,000 of Bessarabian Romanians to Siberia in the summer of 1949. The operation was undertaken by the

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

, under the order of

Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secreta ...

, on 6 June 1949 and was known as the operation "Iug" (South). After retirement he was a Rector of the Chisinau Agricultural Institute.

Bibliography

* ''Chişinău-enciclopedie'' (1997)

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Рудь Герасим Яковлевич
1907 births 1982 deaths People from Rîbnița District People from Baltsky Uyezd Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union candidate members Members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldavia Heads of government of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic People's commissars and ministers of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples Recipients of the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky (Soviet Union), 1st class Politicide perpetrators {{Moldova-politician-stub