Gherasim Rudi (4 March 1907 – 26 June 1982) also Russified as Gerasim Yakovlevich Rud (Russian: Гера́сим Я́ковлевич Рудь) was a Moldavian SSR politician and member of the Moldovan resistance during World War II.

Rudi was born in Sărăței, Rîbnița District.

Rudi was the Prime Minister of Moldavian SSR (5 January 1946 – 23 January 1958); 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.

After retirement he was a Rector of the Chisinau Agricultural Institute.