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Illustration generated by artificial intelligence: a football on a green synthetic pitch, with the goal and net in the background, in afternoon light; no face visible. It symbolizes youth football.
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Ungheni Sports School's U16 team moves up to Liga Națională, home to Sheriff and Zimbru

The Ungheni District Sports School announces that its U16 youth team has qualified for the National League (Liga Națională) — the top tier of youth football in the Republic of Moldova. The federation confirms that the team played in the promotion round at this age group. From the new season, youngsters from a district school with a minimal budget will go up against the academies of the capital and Tiraspol — Sheriff, Zimbru, Dacia Buiucani, Rebeja.

Ion Calmis·2 July 2026· News
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Ungheni borrows 10 million lei for roads on the capital market: what municipal bonds are

The town of Ungheni is borrowing 10 million lei to modernise its streets — not through a classic bank loan, but by issuing municipal bonds, that is debt securities that both residents and companies can buy. Mayor Vitalie Vrabie presented the issue at a national event in Chișinău on 1 July, alongside Leova and Ceadîr-Lunga. It is the first time Ungheni has turned to the capital market, and at 10 million lei it becomes the largest issue by a Moldovan town after the capital, from the publicly known figures. The money goes to an already approved list of roads; the interest will be paid, over time, by the local budget — that is, by the people of Ungheni.

Ion Calmis·2 July 2026· Explainer
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Eight home games and a 1 August start: FCM Ungheni learns its Liga 1 fixture list

The calendar is set. On Thursday, at Casa Fotbalului, the Liga 1 fixture draw was held, and the town's team learned its full path through the first phase of the 2026/2027 season. FCM Ungheni was drawn into Group A and opens the championship at home on Saturday, 1 August, at 6 p.m., against Vulturii Cutezători. Fifteen rounds follow, until 27 November, eight of them at home, against opponents such as Zimbru-2, CF Univer and FC Iskra. For the people of Ungheni who want to watch their side, it is the first clear map of the football autumn — after a summer of friendlies and a promotion narrowly missed in May.

Ion Calmis·2 July 2026· News
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The “St. Alexander Nevsky” Cathedral in Ungheni, in Byzantine-Russian style: a bell tower with an onion dome and cross, the patron icon above the entrance, blue and green domes, cream walls framed by trees against a clear sky.
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The man who gave Ungheni its “St. Alexander Nevsky” Cathedral: 195 years since the birth of architect Alexander Bernardazzi

Today, 2 July, marks 195 years since the birth of Alexander Bernardazzi — Chișinău's chief architect in the second half of the 19th century and the author of dozens of landmark buildings, who designed and gifted the people of Ungheni the plan for the “St. Alexander Nevsky” Cathedral, built in 1903–1905 and now an episcopal cathedral. A street in the Tineretului district has borne his name since 2005. A bonus: the story comes with a correction — Bernardazzi was not born in Saint Petersburg, as often stated, but in Pyatigorsk, in the Caucasus — and a curiosity: that same street once carried the name of another great Bessarabian architect.

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Two Ungheni District Council staff sit at a table with a laptop in front of a roll-up banner of the European MedAccess dental-services project.
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A 1.18-million-euro EU project promises to digitalise Ungheni's regional dental centre and a mobile dental ambulance for villages

Together with the “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Iași, the Ungheni District Council leads the cross-border MedAccess project, funded through Interreg NEXT Romania–Republic of Moldova. Of the 1.18 million euros, 678,800 go to Ungheni district. The money is meant to bring CAD/CAM technology to the regional dental centre, a mobile dental ambulance for isolated villages and a telemedicine platform, by July 2027. It is the third EU health project linking Ungheni to Iași.

Ion Calmis·1 July 2026· News
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A yellow asphalt paver lays a fresh layer of asphalt on Burebista Street in Ungheni, with workers around it and a dump truck feeding the machine.
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Burebista Street in Ungheni: paving begins on a second, 700-metre section, funded from the local budget

On the very day the 1 July deadline cited for the 10.3-million-lei project ran out, Mayor Vitalie Vrabie said the “Europe Is Close” works are continuing, while the city hall separately began paving a second section of Burebista Street — more than 700 metres between Petru Rareș and Zamfir Arbore, from the local budget. Arcașii lui Ștefan and Mihai Viteazul streets are next.

Ion Calmis·1 July 2026· News
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8,473 readers, a third of the town: Ungheni's «Dimitrie Cantemir» library turns 80

The «Dimitrie Cantemir» District Public Library in Ungheni enters its eighth decade in 2026. It began in 1946 in an ordinary house, with 200 books and some 100 readers; today the library and its branches in town hold a collection of more than 96,000 documents and 8,473 registered users — about 32% of the town's population, according to its own report. The exact founding date and any anniversary programme are not yet public.

Ion Calmis·30 June 2026· News
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An urban street with cars parked along the curb and a street-cleaning vehicle sweeping the roadway in the morning.
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Alternating parking on Strada Națională: the City Hall will tow cars left in the cleaners' way, while drivers contest the hour chosen

Ungheni City Hall has set a clear schedule for alternating parking on Strada Națională — a two-hour ban every morning, on each side in turn — and warns that cars left in the way of the street-cleaning machines will be towed. In the comments, several drivers complain that the chosen interval, between 8 and 10 in the morning, falls right at the traffic peak and the shopping rush.

Ion Calmis·30 June 2026· News
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46 women from Ungheni district learned to recognise abuse and where to ask for help

Women from three localities of Ungheni district took part in workshops on the forms of violence — physical, psychological, sexual, economic, social and digital — and on how to ask for help. The sessions, with 46 participants, were organised by the Regional Integrated Service for Victims of Sexual Violence in Ungheni, which also reminded them of the Trust Line for Women and Girls: 0 8008 8008.

Ion Calmis·30 June 2026· News
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