The Chișinău Water Tower is an architectural monument of Chișinău,Moldova,located at 2 Mitropolit Bănulescu-Bodoni Street and built at the end of 19th century after a project by Alexander Bernadazzi. It was a main part of Chișinău's water system. The upper level was built of wood and was destroyed by an earthquake. It was rebuilt between 1980 and 1983. It currently hosts Chișinău City museum,which contains items dating from 15th to 20th centuries. The upper level is a space for exhibitions of both legacy and modern paintings and photographies,as well as various cultural events.
The Triumphal Arch is a monument situated in Central Chișinău next to the Nativity Cathedral on Piața Marii Adunări Naționale nr. 2 and directly opposite Government House.
Vladimir Herța was a Moldovan politician,mayor of Chișinău between 1918 and 1919. He has played an important role in the act of the Union.
Grigore Turcuman was a Bessarabian Romanian politician. As a member of Sfatul Țării,he voted the Union of Bessarabia with the Kingdom of Romania on 27 March 1918.
Elena Alistar-Romanescu was a Bessarabian physician and politician who was part of Sfatul Țării from Bessarabia.
Veaceslav Untilă is a Moldovan politician.
Oazu Nantoi is a Moldovan politician and political analyst serving as member of Parliament of Moldova since 2019.
Alexandru Robot was a Romanian,Moldovan and Soviet poet,also known as a novelist and journalist. First noted as a member of Romanian literary clubs,and committed to modernism and the avant-garde,he developed a poetic style based on borrowings from Symbolist and Expressionist literature. Also deemed a "Hermeticist" for the lexical obscurity in some of his poems,as well as for the similarity between his style and that of Ion Barbu,Robot was in particular noted for his pastorals,where he fused modernist elements into a traditionalist convention.
The Stephen the Great Central Park is the main park in Central Chișinău,Moldova. It is the oldest park in Moldova and spans about 7 hectares. It has gained the nickname "The Park of the Lovers" in Chișinău due to its popularity as a meeting spot for couples. The park contains 50 species of trees,some of which are quite old,the mulberries and acacias being between 130 and 180 years. The Alley of Classics is located in the park.
Nadejda Evgenevna Grinfeld (1887–?) was a Bessarabian politician.
Petru Soltan was a Moldovan mathematician. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and an honorary member of the Romanian Academy. Petru Soltan was a member of the Mathematical Society of Moldova.
Mihai Dolgan was a singer and composer from Moldova. In 1967 he set up the Noroc which became one of the most famous bands in the Soviet Union.
Andrei Hodorogea was a politician from Bessarabia.
Doina and Ion Aldea Teodorovici was a Moldovan musical duo consisting of married couple Doina and Ion Aldea Teodorovici. The group disbanded in 1992,after both members died in a road traffic accident in Coșereni. Today,there is a monument to them there,as well as another in Chișinău.
Dumitru I. Remenco was a Romanian journalist and philosopher from Chişinău,Bessarabia. He was a contributor at major newspapers of Bessarabia,such as Cuvânt moldovenesc,Viaţa Basarabiei,Glasul Basarabiei,Timpul.
Samuil Rivinovici Lehtțir,also rendered as Lehțir,Lehtțâr,Lekhttsir,Lekhtser,and Lehitser,was Moldovan poet,critic,and literary theorist. Of Bessarabian Jewish origin,he rejected Romanian nationalism as a youth,and fled to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Returning to complete his studies at Cernăuți University in the Kingdom of Romania,but was regarded as a political suspect,and again escaped to the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (MASSR) in 1926—soon after that polity had been created within the Soviet Union. He was employed as a book publisher and journalist,emerging as an authority on literary matters. Lehtțir adopted Proletkult ideas about the need to destroy and rebuild cultural traditions;on such grounds,he and his colleague Iosif Vainberg came to deny that there was a Bessarabian literature that was worth preserving,and that Moldavian literary tradition could be built up from proletarian identity and Soviet patriotism. This sparked a special controversy within a larger debate about Romanian and Moldavian identity.
Nina Crulicovschi is an easy listening singer from the Republic of Moldova.
The Order of Honour is a state order of the Republic of Moldova established by Parliament of Moldova in 2002,which is awarded by presidential decree. It is the fourth highest distinction of Moldova,after Order of the Republic,Order of Ştefan cel Mare,Order of Bogdan the Founder,and just before the Order of Loyalty to the Homeland. The Order of Honour can be awarded also to organizations,institutions,etc.
Dmitrii or Dumitru Petrovici Milev was a Bessarabian-born short-story writer and communist militant,active in the Soviet Union's Moldavian Autonomous Republic (MASSR). During World War I,he served as an officer in the Imperial Russian Army,but embraced Bolshevik ideology around the time of the October Revolution;he was strongly opposed to Greater Romania,and,after the Romanian–Bessarabian unification,made his way into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic,which was a cradle for Moldovenism and the MASSR. Though originating from a community of Bessarabian Bulgarians,Milev identified with the Moldavian (Moldovan) ethnicity,which he viewed as distinct from the Romanians. More controversially,he advocated for a "Moldavian language",which he used in his contributions to proletarian literature—and which later scholarship regarded as "gibberish".
Claudia Cobizev was a Soviet realist sculptor from the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. Known for the sensitivity she introduced to her soviet realist works,many of her sculptures and reliefs are held in the National Museum of Fine Arts,Chișinău.
