Chisinau
| Chisinau | |
|---|---|
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| Flag | Blazon |
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| Geography | |
| Country |  Moldova |
| Contact | 47 00'N 28 55'E |
| Area | 565 km |
| Altitude | m |
| Administrative status | |
| Status | Municipality |
| Foundation | |
| First mention | 1436 |
| Sociological data | |
| Population Density | 647 513 (2005) 1.426 inhab. / km |
| Demonym | Chiinen, Chiinenne |
| Economy | |
| Unemployment rate | 8.1% |
| Revenue Monthly Average | 158 |
| Politics | |
| Mayor | Dorin Chirtoac |
| Mandate | (Unknown) |
| Majority | |
| Seats | |
| Other information | |
| Postcode | MD- |
| Indicative Telephone | +373-22-XX-XX-XX |
| Plates Registration | C |
| Official site | www.chisinau.md |
| Location | |
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Chisinau ( API / IPA | ki.i. 'nw, Russian : , transcribed into French or more often usual spelling in the texts in French before 1991), is a city of Bessarabia , the capital of Moldova.
The city is situated on seven hills and stretches over 120 km 2. It is crossed by rivers and Bcu Isnov.
It is currently administered by Dorin Chirtoac (Mayor).
Summary |
History
The fort soldiers vesicles of Kis-Jen (Petite-Fontaine, magyar , delivered Kichyneu) was higher in 1436 on the road that took the Tatars to plunder the Moldova by Prince Elias on the right bank of the river Bcu (Russian Byk), a tributary of the Nistru (Russian Dniester ). In the shelter of the fort rose rapidly from Chisinau Moldovan village where farmers and growers market held nearby. In the nineteenth century, the Russians made it the capital of Bessarabia with a grid pattern around a Russian cathedral and the railway to sell agricultural products to Odessa. At this time, many Russians , Jews , Germans and Armenians settled there. Chisinau having a French visitor, the Russian geographer Zastchouk said: This is our Wild West here during the Second World War. The population of the city was very cosmopolitan until 1940 (with many refugee White Russians , Jews, Greeks and Armenians of Asia Minor, supported by Fritjof Nansen | Nansen Committee) . The deportations and massacres of the years 1940 - one thousand nine hundred fifty plans by Romanian fascist and Stalinist Soviet population decreased and this decrease was offset from 1945 by the influx of Russians, Ukrainians and Jews from all over the USSR and Moldovans from the surrounding countryside .
The city is now the largest in the country with 752,000 inhabitants (2002). This is an industrial and tertiary sectors (insurance, business) major, which has an international airport.
Administrative Composition
- The city consists of five boroughs: Centru , Buiucani , Botanica , Riscani and Ciocana.
- The urban community of Grand Chisinau includes 18 municipalities: the municipality itself, 6 towns and 3 villages.
Climate
The climate is temperate and slightly Chisinau Continental. In winter the average temperature drops to -2.5 C in January and the summer it rises to 20.8 C in July. The snow covers the ground on average 63 days per year. Summer is the season that receives the most rainfall.
- Record the coldest temperature: -28.9 C (Feb. 1954)
- The hottest temperature record: 39.4 C (Jul 1907)
- Average number of days with snow this year: 53
- Average number of rainy days in the year: 128
- Average number of days with thunder in the year: 33
- Average number of days with snow storm in the year: 3
| months | January | February | March | April | May | jul. | jul. | Aug. | September | October | November | December | year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average minimum temperature ( C ) | -5,4 | -4,5 | -0,5 | 5,2 | 10,5 | 13,9 | 15,3 | 15,1 | 10,9 | 5,7 | 1,0 | -2,6 | 5,4 |
| Mean Temperature ( C) | -2,5 | -1,7 | 3,0 | 10,0 | 16,0 | 19,3 | 20,8 | 20,7 | 16,0 | 10,0 | 4,0 | 0,0 | 9,6 |
| Average maximum temperature ( C) | 1,0 | 2,4 | 7,3 | 15,9 | 21,8 | 24,9 | 26,6 | 26,9 | 22,2 | 15,5 | 7,7 | 2,9 | 14,6 |
| Rainfall ( mm ) | 30 | 32 | 34 | 42 | 56 | 74 | 74 | 47 | 47 | 30 | 39 | 34 | 539 |
Famous Personalities
- Lewis Milestone ( 1 895 - 1,980 ), American film director born in Chisinau
- Joseph Joanovici ( one thousand nine hundred and five - in 1965 ), reinforcing immigrated to France, collaborator during the occupation (a main supplier of metal to the German authorities), born in Chisinau
- Elizabeth Ivanovsky ( 1.91 thousand - 2006 ), painter and illustrator born in Chisinau
- Bancic Olga ( 1912 - one thousand nine hundred and forty-four ), Romanian Resistant France
- Eva Lallemant ( 1916 -), painter born in Chisinau
- Maria Cebotari ( 1,910 - 1944 ) soprano, opera singer born in Chisinau
- Dina Vierny ( 1919 - 2009 ), muse of Aristide Maillol and founder of the Muse Maillol was born in Chisinau
- Igor Kostin ( 1936 -), photographer born in Chisinau
- Avigdor Liberman ( 1958 -), founder and leader of the ultra-nationalist Beytenou Israel ("Israel Our Home), Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Israel since 31 March 2009.
Annual Festival City
Twinning
The city of Chisinau is twinned with:
-
Grenoble ( France ) since January 1977 -
Reggio Emilia ( Italy ) since 20 April 1989 -
Mannheim ( Germany ) since 2 November 1989 -
Sacramento ( United States ) since 20 June 1990 -
Odessa ( Ukraine ) since 23 December 1994 -
Bucharest ( Romania ) since 4 November 1994 - Kiev ( Ukraine ) since 21 December 1999
-
Yerevan ( Armenia ) since 24 March 2000 -
Minsk ( Belarus ) since 29 June 2000 -
Tel Aviv ( Israel ) since 17 July 2000 -
Ankara ( Turkey ) since 12 February 2004 - Iasi ( Romania ) since 24 January 2008
The city of Chisinau has partnership agreements with:
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Moscow ( Russia ) since 28 February 1995 -
County of Hampshire ( UK ) since 24 June 1996 - Jerusalem ( Israel ) since 27 July 1998
- Saratov ( Russia ) since 15 October 1999
- Citt di Castello ( Italy ) since 2 November 1999
-
Astana ( Kazakhstan ) since 1 December 2000 -
Damascus ( Syria ) since 13 January 2001 - Tula ( Russia ) since 20 January 2001
- Kherson ( Ukraine ) since 16 March 2004
- Rome ( Italy ) since 18 November 2004. Only with the Municipio XVII.
-
Vilnius ( Lithuania ) since 13 October 2006 -
Lubuskie ( Poland ) since 13 October 2006 - Pitesti ( Romania ) from 14 October 2007
Photo Gallery
Arc de Triomphe and cathedral Orthodox in central Chisinau
Chisinau City Hall
Chisinau seen by satellite Spot
Notes
- A. Zastchouk: The province of Bessarabia: materials for geography and statistics of the empire, St Petersburg 1862.
- "Memories of the Holocaust: Kishinev (Chisinau) (1941-1944)" from jewishvirtuallibrary.org Pogroms and the Second World War.
- Anthony Babel, Bessarabia, Flix Alcan, Geneva, 1936.
- Nikolai Feodorovitch Buga, , / / , . . . 1999. (1.3): The deportation of the people of Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. Ed. Dittmar Dahlmann and Gerhard Hirschfeld - Essen (Germany) 1999, P. 567-581.
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See also
Related articles
External Links
- Official site
- Chiinu telephone directory (Rus Eng Fr De)
- Chisinau - Moldova Portal (in French)
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