His first appearance is in The Spy Who Loved Me, where he is seen sending Anya to recover an important roll of Microflim. Later in the film Gogol and Bond's boss, M, form an alliance, which is the start of the Anglo-Soviet relationship. Gogol is seen next in Moonraker, talking to a US official about Hugo Drax s Space Stasion.

In For Your Eyes Only, Gogol wants to buy an ATAC communicator . When Bond throws it off a cliff, Gogol is dismayed but keeps his guard from shooting Bond; he rationalizes that the machine's destruction maintains the relatively peaceful status quo of the nations. The assistant of General Gogol, appearing briefly in For Your Eyes Only, is called Rubelvitch, a wordplay on the name Moneypenny.

In A View to A Kill, Gogol tries to stop Zorin , an erstwhile KGB agent, from destroying Sicon Valley . When Zorin defies the order to stop his plan, Gogol sends KGB agent to see what Zorin is up to. When Pola meets Bond, she tries to take the tape from him and give it to Gogol. Gogol is embarrassed that Pola got the wrong tape. At the end of the film Gogol awards Bond the Order Of Lenin, stating that Bond was the first non-Soviet citizen to receive it (being awarded this medal contradicts a statement in the novel Goldfinger that stated that people in the British Secret Service could not accept awards from foreign services, no matter how friendly (such as the CIA). However, Bond may not have accepted the award, and the Russians may have insisted he was awarded it anyway, whether he'd accepted the medal or not.)

In The Living Daylights, Gogol is only seen in the end in the Foreign Ministry. He attends Kara concert with M, offering Milovy a Visa which would allow her to leave the East Bloc at will.