Kishinev
Geographic position: latitude 47021 North and longitude 280501
East.
Kishinev is a significant administrative, political, economic,
scientific, cultural and touristic centre of the Republic of Moldova. The
first historic record of the name Kishinev goes back to July 17
1436. The name derives from a word meaning “spring, pump, pipe”.
The city is located on seven hills and stretches over 120 km2. The population
of Kishinev is over 752 thousand. Kishinev is crossed by
two rivers – the Bic and Isnovat. The climate is moderate continental.
The City is divided into 5 sectors: Centre, Buiucani, Botanica, Riscani
and Ciocana. The Greater Chisinau area comprises 18 territorial administrative
areas: 1 municipality, 6 towns, 8 communities and 3 villages. The local
administrative state body is the City Hall of Chisinau.
Annual City celebration:14th of October.
http://www.dumitrup.com/gallery/folder/Chisinau/Vechiul-Chisinau
This site contains artwork of V.Corcimari - one of the leading press
photographers of Moldova.
http://photo.md/?lang=eng
Chishinev
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Kishinev is a compact city,
its centre – the place of our future walk – is well connected with
all the administrative sectors.
Center
About Moldova
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The Monuments of Kishinev
Architecture
The achievements of the Kishinev inhabitants in the area of architecture
are considerable. The capital of Moldova is indebted for its status of
the “historical city”, received in 1986, to its centre. It was formerly
the whole Kishinev, and now just a little part of it, encircled with the
massive row of the new buildings of 60-80th. That time the people used
to joke: "Kishinev is a village in the centre and the city in the suburbs".
That was time when the industrial building in Kishinev was accelerating.
The high buildings that had been unthinkable in seismic area aroused public
admiration. The accurate strait lines of the new houses were found modern
and beautiful. Newspapers, presenting the capital of Moldova, were only
publishing the photographs of the new buildings and boulevards and the
old ones were ashamed and scolded for architectural extravagances. Fortunately,
the industrial building did not affect the beauty of the old city. The
people got tired with the strait lines and rediscovered the dignity of
the scales, proportionate to man and even fascination of the architectural
extravagances. The middle-80-ies Kishinev dwellers had very painful attitude
to all the changes in the centre of the city and even opposed them.
