Boris Ignatievich Gudz ( August 19, 1902 , Ufa - December 27, 2006 , Moscow ) - Soviet intelligence officer . The last years of his life remained the only surviving chekist of the first draft [1] and the last living participant in the Civil War.
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| Date of Birth | August 19, 1902 |
| Place of Birth | Ufa , Ufa Province , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | December 27, 2006 (104 years) |
| Place of death | Moscow , Russian Federation |
| Citizenship |  Russian Empire → Russian Republic →  RSFSR →  USSR → Russia |
| Occupation | scout |
Biography
Born in the family of a revolutionary, following the example of his father, he joined the Bolshevik Party. Was in exile in Arkhangelsk. During the February Revolution of 1917, he participated in the arrest of the head of the Tula gendarme department, General Ielitov. He enlisted in the Red Army as a volunteer, in 1919 escorted food trains from Ukraine to Moscow.
In 1923, he came to work in the Cheka at the invitation of a friend of his father [2] , the then chief of the Soviet counterintelligence, A. Artuzov (Frauchi) , where he was engaged in the fight against smugglers , and later - in the struggle against the White Guard underground.
In 1926, he participated in Operation Trust .
He graduated from the correspondence department of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Institute of Red Professors (1932).
From 1932 - Head of Intelligence and Counterintelligence of the OGPU in the East Siberian Region. Successfully conducted an operation to capture in the territory of Manchuria, Esaula Taphaev .
From 1933 he was a resident of the foreign department of the OGPU NKVD in Japan , from 1936 he returned to Moscow and worked in the RKKA Intelligence Directorate, where he supervised, in particular, Richard Sorge .
In 1937 , after the arrests and executions of Artuzov and other prominent KGB men he knew, he was dismissed from intelligence and expelled from the CPSU (B.) With the wording “for incompetence as a untrustworthy worker who had a close relationship with the enemies of the people ”, which happened also due to the arrest of his son-in-law Varlam Shalamov under the counter-revolutionary activities article (which, in 1936, on the advice of Gudz, wrote a renunciation of Trotskyism’s past in Lubyanka, [3] his wife Galina, sister of Gudz, was exiled to the Kaganovichi district of the Chardzhou region until 1946 [4 ] ).
After being fired, he worked as a bus driver for a long time, and later as a carpool director. Subsequently, he was rehabilitated and restored to the CPSU.
Since 1962 - retired. He retired in the archives of the KGB and the CPSU Central Committee . He was a consultant to the feature film “ Operation Trust” , shot in 1967 at Mosfilm by director S. Kolosov based on L. Nikulin ’s chronicle “Dead Swell”.
He was married three times. The latter has been since 2003 [1] .
He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery [5] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Who are the foreign intelligence geniuses?
- ↑ Who is to blame - Accused of espionage
- ↑ Esipov V.V. Shalamov. - M .: Young Guard, 2012. - Series: The Life of Wonderful People (ZHZL). Issue 1574 (1374). - Chapter Seven.
- ↑ Esipov V.V. Shalamov. - M .: Young Guard, 2012. - Series: The Life of Wonderful People (ZHZL). Issue 1574 (1374). - Chapter Nine.
- ↑ Grave B. I. Gudzya
Links
- Mikhailov I. The Living Intelligence Legend // Parliamentary Newspaper, 20.12.2005.
- Gudz Boris Ignatievich. Obituary (inaccessible link)
- Scout Boris Gudzya was not shot by accident // Pravda.ru, December 29, 2006