The monument in memory of the victims of the deportations of the communist regime „The Train of Pain”
A Monument erected in honor of those deported people from Moldova during the three waves of deportation: in June 1941, July 1949 and April 1951 (a total of about 58,000 people were deported). It was inaugurated on August 23, 2013 on The Train Station Alley. The author of the monument...
Railway Station
At the end of the 19th century, the Chisinau railway station held paramount significance as the city’s most crucial edifice, owing to the fact that, during that era, the fastest and most pivotal mode of transportation was the railway. The initial construction of the railway station occurred in the 1870s,...
Steam Locomotive
The steam locomotive at the Chisinau Railway Station always attracts the eyes and curiosity of tourists. On it is a commemorative plaque with the following text: “Built by the Czegelski factory (in the name of Joseph Stalin) in 1950. Factory number 1469. The inscription on the side of the locomotive:...
The statue of Grigore Kotovski
A vestige of the Soviet past. It was erected in 1953. The statue of the communist Grigore Kotovski, participant in the Russian Civil War, was erected by a group of sculptors and painters – L. Dubinovschi, K. Kitaika, I. Perșudcev and A. Poseado, after the schematics of the architect F....
Monastery ,,Saint Great Martyr Teodor Tiron” (Ciuflea) (1854-1858)
It is the only convent of nuns in the territory of Chișinău. Its cathedral is a white stone temple with nine gilded domes and was built at the request of brothers Teodor (1796-1854) and Anastasie (1801-1870) Ciufli, based on the design of architect Luca Zaușchevici. It is popularly known as...
Holy Trinity Church (1852-1862, or 1869)
The “Holy Trinity” Church was founded and consecrated by Archbishop Antonie Shocotov, on the territory of the former cemetery of the village of Muncesti (nowadays Botanica sector). It is a church built according to one of the model projects, which were widespread in Bessarabia at that time and used in...
Mural painting “Wall of Glory”
“The Wall of Glory” is the name of the mural, which was painted for two weeks by three artists, at the initiative of painter Radu Dumbravă. The king of the Dacians, Decebal, was painted on the wall of a pump factory, located on Decebal Boulevard 3. It took 60 litres...
The Heroes’ Cemetery Memorial Complex
The Heroes’ Cemetery Memorial Complex, known in different eras as the Heroes’ Cemetery, the Cemetery of Honour or the Romanian Military Cemetery, is a historical monument located on bd. Decebal 17 in Chisinau. Here were buried soldiers of different ethnicities participating in the two world wars. The cemetery appeared in...