Gherasim Rudi | |
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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 by | Nicolae Coval (as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Moldavian SSR) |
| Succeeded by | Alexandru Diordiță |
| 1st Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Moldavian SSR | |
| Premier | Tihon Konstantinov Nicolae Coval |
| Succeeded by | Alexandru Diordiță |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 March 1907 Sărăţei, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 26 June 1982 (aged 75) Chişinău, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Communist 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.