Street names in Chișinău explained

Chișinău is the capital of Moldova. This article gives an overview of street names in the city that refer to famous persons, cities or historic events.

A large number of streets have been named after persons that played an important role in Moldovan history:

• Vasile Alecsandri, Romanian writer
• Nicolae Anestiade
• Gavriil Bănulescu-Bodoni, metropolitan of Romanian orthodox church
• Alexandru cel Bun, Moldavian voivode between 1400 and 1432
• Dimitrie Cantemir, Moldavian voivode
• George Coșbuc, Romanian writer, 1866 - 1918
• Decebal, Dacian king, 87 - 106
• Dosoftei, Moldavian metropolitan
• Mihai Eminescu, Romanian writer
• Yuri Gagarin, first man in space
• Octavian Goga, Romanian poet and politician, 1881 - 1938
• Pan Halippa
• Alexandru Lăpușneanu, prince of Moldavia, 1552 - 1568
• Titu Maiorescu, Romanian writer
• Stefan cel Mare, prince of Moldova between 1457 and 1504
• Alexei Mateevici, Moldavian Romanian poet, 1888 - 1917
• Veronica Micle, Romanian writer
• Petru Movila, metropolitan of Kiev, 1633 - 1646
• Constantin Negruzzi, Romanian writer
• Anton Pann, Wallachian poet and composer, 1790s - 1854
• Vlaicu Pircalab
• Alexander Pushkin, Russian writer
• Alexey Shchusev
• Varlaam, Moldovan metropolitan
• Mihai Viteazul, prince of Moldavia, Wallachia and Transylvania in 1600

Other streets are named after cities in Moldova or elsewhere

• București, capital of neighbouring Romania
• Hîncești, town in Moldova
• Ismail, town in southern Ukraine
• Tighina (or Bender)
• Tiraspol, second largest city in the country, capital of the disputed republic of Transnistria

Some other references:

• Sfatul Țării, the national council that declared the Moldavian Democratic Republic on January 24, 1918