Background
Gudz was born at Ufa in the Russian Empire, where his parents moved following a revolutionary movement in Ukraine.
Gudz was born at Ufa in the Russian Empire, where his parents moved following a revolutionary movement in Ukraine.
Institute of Red Professors.
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. Later, he was appointed head of the Joint State Political Administration intelligence and counterintelligence department in East Siberia, and then in 1933 in Japan.
Gudz died on 27 December 2006, aged 104 years.
His funeral ceremony took place in Moscow.
In 1923, Gudz began his career in the State Political Directorate (Joint State Political Administration) as a junior member of the staff involved in operation Trust. 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.