31 august 1989 street
In the centre of the city, on one street or another, at a certain moment you will cross 31 August 1989. The street was built in 1818 and became one of the first streets of the "New City". Initially, the street was called Kievskaya, which, in residential buildings, sat the nobility of the city.
In the second half of the 19th century, new buildings appeared: Theological Seminary, the first secondary school for boys, the high school for girls, the Church of St. Panteleimon.
In 1944, with the advent of Soviet power, the street was restored to its original name and here appeared the Republican Library, the Fire theatre and the Press House. You've probably wondered why the street is called that, and what events were at the root of renaming it in honour of the last summer day of 89?
On 27 August 1989, hundreds of thousands of inhabitants of the country gathered in the central square of Chisinau, asking the authorities to legislate the two main national claims – the status of state language (official) for the Moldovan language (Romanian) and the transition of writing from Russian to Latin.
Already on 31 August 1989, the Supreme Soviet adopted the Language Law, officialising the Romanian language as the only "state language", based on the Latin Alphabet, this being the first and most important historical conquest of the National Renaissance Movement of post-war Bessarabia!
August 31st is marked in the Republic of Moldova as the day of the Romanian Language.
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