Rank: Junior Lieutenant Branch of troops: Land forces, air forces (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border troops Called up for service on 01.11.1936 as a Don Cossack, served in the 20 KAV. regiment 4 Cossack Red Banner division. From 01.02.1937 Cadet, from 28.10.1938 Squad Commander. City of Slutsk. His division commander till July 1937 was Kombrig Georgy Zhukov. According to the document, Gusev took the oath as a Junior Lieutenant on April 24, 1940 in the Zhytomyr region; during war against Finland Gusev was sent to the commander's school and then to the front line, but he did not to part in it since the military actions of this war were terminated. He worked at the Stalingrad Tractor plant at the foundry shop, his home address then was settlement Spartanovka, Menzhinskaya street 25. In August 1941, he was called up by the Voroshilovsky RVC of Stalingrad according to tje list of Red Army commissars engaged in job at defense enterprises, VUS 1. He trained young STZ conscripts military affairs and in the fall of 1941 together with them was commissioned to the front. Junior Lieutenant, commander of the 36th guards rifle regiment of the 14th guards rifle division (until 24.01.1942, 43rd regiment). He perished on February 12, 1942 and was buried at the Donetsk region.