Mayor of Chișinău
| Mayor of Chișinău | |
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| Primarul general al municipiului Chișinău | |
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| Style | Mr. Mayor |
| Seat | Chișinău |
| Appointer | Direct popular vote |
| Term length | 4 years |
| Inaugural holder | Anghel Nour |
| Website | chisinau.md |
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The Mayor of Chișinău, officially the General Mayor of the Municipality of Chișinău (Romanian: Primar general al municipiul Chișinău), is the head of the executive branch of Chișinău's government and a member of the city's Municipal Council.
History
[edit]The first mayor of Chișinău was Anghel Nour in 1817. In 1941, the office was abolished. After the end of the Soviet era and the re-establishment of the office in 1990, Nicolae Costin became the first democratically elected mayor.
List of mayors
[edit]Throughout the passing of time, the mayors of the city of Chișinău have been the following ones:
Russian Empire
[edit]| Nº | Mayor | From | Until | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anghel Nour | 1817 | 1821 | First mayor of the city |
| 2 | Dimitrie Lovcinski | 1821 | 1831 | |
| 3 | Stavru Dimu | 1831 | 1833 | |
| (2) | Dimitrie Lovcinski | 1834 | 1836 | Second time serving as mayor |
| 4 | Pantelimon I. Sinadino | 1837 | 1839 | |
| 1840 | 1842 | Second time serving as mayor | ||
| (2) | Dimitrie Lovcinski | 1843 | 1845 | Second time serving as mayor |
| 5 | Dimitrie Durdufi | 1846 | 1848 | |
| 6 | Dimitrie Mincu | 1849 | 1854 | |
| 7 | Anghel Nicolau | 1855 | 1858 | |
| (6) | Dimitrie Mincu | 1858 | 1860 | Second time serving as mayor |
| 1861 | 1866 | Third time serving as mayor | ||
| 8 | Adam Krijanovski | 1867 | 1869 | |
| 9 | Pavel Gumalic | 1870 | 1871 | |
| 10 | Clemente Șumanski | 1871 | 1877 | |
| 11 | Carol Schmidt | 1877 | 1903 | First ethnic German mayor of the city (more specifically Bessarabian German) |
| 12 | Leopold Siținski | 1904 | 1905 | |
| 13 | Pantelimon V. Sinadino | 1905 | 1910 | National Liberal Party (PNL) |
| 14 | Iulian Levinski | 1910 | 1917 |
Moldavian Democratic Republic
[edit]| Nº | Mayor | From | Until | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | Alexander Schmidt | 1917 | 1918 | Second ethnic German mayor of the city (more specifically Bessarabian German), son of Carol Schmidt |
Kingdom of Romania
[edit]| Nº | Mayor | From | Until | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | Vladimir Herța | 1918 | 1919 | National Liberal Party (PNL) | |
| 17 | Teodor Cojocaru | 1919 | 1920 | ||
| (14) | Iulian Levinski | 1920 | 1922 | Second time serving as mayor | |
| 18 | Vasile Bârcă | 1922 | 1923 | National Liberal Party (PNL) | |
| 19 | Gherman Pântea | 1923 | 1923 | ||
| 20 | Nicolae Bivol | 1923 | 1924 | ||
| (18) | Vasile Bârcă | 1924 | 1925 | ||
| (20) | Nicolae Bivol | 1925 | 1926 | ||
| 21 | Sebastian Teodorescu | 1926 | 1927 | ||
| (19) | Gherman Pântea | 1927 | 1928 | National Liberal Party (PNL) | |
| 22 | Ion Negrescu | 1928 | 1931 | ||
| 23 | Constantin Ionescu | 1931 | 1932 | ||
| (19) | Gherman Pântea | 1932 | 1932 | National Liberal Party (PNL) | |
| 24 | Dimitrie Bogos | 1932 | 1933 | National Peasants' Party (PNȚ) | |
| 25 | Ion Costin | 1933 | 1937 | ||
| – | Alexandru Sibirski (acting/ad interim) | 1937 | 1938 | Acting mayor | |
| 26 | Constantin Dardan | 1938 | 1938 | ||
| 27 | Reindhold Scheibler | 1938 | 1938 | Third ethnic German (more specifically Bessarabian German) mayor of the city | |
| 28 | Vladimir Cristi | 1938 | 1940 | National Liberal Party (PNL) | |
| 29 | Anibal Dobjanski | 1941 | 1941 | Bessarabian Polish | |
Moldavian SSR
[edit]Chairmen of the Chișinău City Executive Committee.
| Nº | Chairman | From | Until | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nicolae Vizitei | 1944 | 1946 | Moldavian Communist Party under the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) |
| 2 | Dmitry Smirnov | 1946 | 1950 | |
| 3 | Konstantin Sablin | 1950 | 1953 | |
| 4 | Anatoly Maryutin | 1953 | 1955 | Communist Party of Moldavia under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| 5 | Boris Tanashevsky | 1955 | 1959 | |
| 6 | Macar Godoba | 1959 | 1961 | |
| 7 | Mihail Dieur | 1961 | 1966 | |
| 8 | Anatoly Damaskin | 1966 | 1970 | |
| 9 | Ivan Kuskevich | 1970 | 1973 | |
| 10 | Vladimir Zakharov | 1973 | 1975 | |
| 11 | Nicolae Uzun | 1975 | 1981 | |
| 12 | Vladimir Semyonov | 1981 | 1985 | |
| 13 | Mihail Platon | 1985 | 1987 | |
| 14 | Ion Guțu | 1987 | 1989 | |
| 15 | Vladimir Dobrea | 1989 | 1990 | |
| 16 | Mihai Severovan | 1990 | ||
