Boris Gudz

Quick Facts

Intro

OGPU agent

A.K.A.

Boris Ignatyevich Gudz

Places

Russia

was

Writer Military personnel

Work field

Literature Military

Gender

Male

Birth

19 August 1902 People who share this birthday

Place of birth

Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia

Star sign

Leo People who share this birthday

Death

29 December 2006 People who died on this day

Place of death

Moscow, Russia

Age

104 years

Politics:

Communist Party Of The Soviet Union

The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Boris Gudz (1902 – 27 December 2006) was the last survivor of the October Revolution, a veteran of the Russian Civil War, and an OGPU security agent.

Biography

Gudz was born at Ufa in the Russian Empire, where his parents moved following a revolutionary movement in Ukraine. He joined the Bolshevik Party in his early teens after his father was arrested for revolutionary activity. He participated in the October Revolution and later fought in the Red Army against the White Army during the Russian Civil War. In 1923, Gudz began his career in the State Political Directorate (OGPU) as a junior member of the staff involved in operation Trust. Later, he was appointed head of the OGPU intelligence and counterintelligence department in East Siberia, and then in 1933 in Japan.

In 1937, after his sister was arrested during the Great Purge, he was expelled from the Soviet Communist Party and dismissed from the Red Army, but was soon restored to the Party and the Army.

Gudz died on 27 December 2006, aged 104 years. His funeral ceremony took place in Moscow.