In 1982 the UNESCO accepted his suggestion to declare April 29 as the International Dance Day.

Today Gusev's production of Le Corsaire is included in the repertory of the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet.

Gusev also staged a new one-act version of the 1900 Petipa/Drigo ballet Les Millions d’Arlequin under the title Harlequinade for the Ballet of the Maly Theatre, a production that was largely based on Fyodor Lopukhov's version of 1933 for the same company.

In the 1930s and 1940s, Gusev created many pas de deux set to music taken from the Petipa/Imperial-era repertory.

In 1947 Gusev choreographed a new version of the Variation de Gamzatti from the 1877 Petipa/Minkus ballet La Bayadère for Natalia Dudinskaya.

Today Gusev's choreography is the standard version performed by ballet companies throughout the world.