Boris Gudz was the last survivor of the October Revolution

October Revolution

The October Revolution , also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution , Red October, the October Uprising or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a political revolution and a part of the Russian Revolution of 1917...

, veteran of the Russian Civil War

Russian Civil War

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 and OGPU security agent member.

Biography

Gudz was born at Ufa

Ufa

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, Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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, where his parents moved following a revolutionary movement in Ukraine

Ukraine

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. He joined the Bolshevik Party in his early teens, after his father was arrested for revolutionary activity. He participed in the October Revolution and later fought in the Red Army

Red Army

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 agains the White Army during the Russian Civil War. In 1923 Gudz, began his career in the State Political Directorate (OGPU), where he was appointed head of the OGPU intelligence and counterintelligence department in East Siberia.

In 1937, after his sister was arrested during the Great Purge

Great Purge

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, 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 December 27, 2006 at aged 104 years. His funeral ceremony took place in Moscow.