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The holy place was given the name “Saint Hierarch Nicholas” in memory of the first founder – the felcher Nicholas Ivanov. The construction of the church began in 1901, according to the project of the city architect Vladimir Tiganko. After the death of the main founder, Catherine’s wife sells the...

Toma Ciorba (1864-1936) An illustrious humanist doctor hailing from Bessarabia, Toma Ciorba was a graduate of the Medical Faculty at the University “St. Vladimir” in Kiev. He served as a medical doctor in Chisinau and gained recognition as the initiator and designer of the Infectious Diseases Hospital, a role he...

It is a place of worship and an architectural monument of national significance, entered in the Register of monuments of history and culture of the municipality of Chisinau. It is the former chapel “St. Emperors Constantine and Helen” of the gymnasium no. 2 for boys (in the interwar period –...

The history of urban environmental transport in Chisinau traces back to 1888 when the City Duma, under the leadership of the mayor Carl Schmidt, entered into an agreement with a Belgian company to establish a new transportation network—the “horse streetcar” or horse-drawn streetcar. This significant transport revolution unfolded in 1889...