Gherasim Rudi
Герасим Рудь
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Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Moldavian SSR
In office
5 January 1946 – 23 January 1958
Preceded byNicolae Coval (as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Moldavian SSR)
Succeeded byAlexandru Diordiță
Personal details
Born4 March 1907
Sărăţei, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire
Died26 June 1982(1982-06-26) (aged 75)
Chişinău, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
Political partyCommunist Party of Moldova

Gherasim Rudi (4 March 1907 – 26 June 1982) also Russified as Gerasim Yakovlevich Rud (Russian: Гера́сим Я́ковлевич Рудь) was a Moldavian SSR politician and member of the Moldovan resistance during World War II.

Rudi was born in Sărăţei, Rîbnița District. 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, under the order of Joseph Stalin, 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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