Street names in Chișinău

Chișinău is the capital of Moldova. This page 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