Gherasim Rudi
Gherasim Rudi was a Moldavian SSR politician and member of the Moldovan resistance during World War II.
Gherasim Rudi was born in Sărăţei, Rîbnița District. He died on 26 June 1982, in Chişinău.
Gherasim Rudi was the prime minister of Moldavian SSR ; 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". After retirement he was a Rector of the Chisinau Agricultural Institute.
