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In a function hall, a woman presents a slide titled “The stages of organizing a folkloric expedition”; beside her, on a table covered with a traditional rug, framed pictures and embroideries are on display.

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The traditional houses of Ungheni's villages are vanishing. Documenting them has become “an emergency”

A workshop organized by the Culture and Tourism Department at Petrești, on 23 July, raised a problem larger than a single day of sessions: the peasant houses of clay, wood and reed thatch in the district's villages are being lost, against a backdrop of depopulation of more than 22% in a decade, and the ordinary ones hold no monument status. What most often remains is only what someone manages to document — a method with deep roots right here, at Cornova, where Dimitrie Gusti's team was already “reading” the village back in 1931.

Ion Calmis·25 July 2026· Explainer

An exhibition wall of framed black-and-white photographs of a village of old, in a warmly lit library reading room.

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A village in Ungheni district entered sociology textbooks 95 years ago. Gusti's Cornova returns to Ungheni — in photographs

In the summer of 1931, a team of 55 scholars led by sociologist Dimitrie Gusti descended on a village in today's Ungheni district and studied it down to the last detail — the first Bessarabian village ‘read' scientifically. The expedition's photographer, Iosif Berman, left images that made history. Ninety-five years on, a son of the village, Vasile Șoimaru, sets them beside his own photographs of today. The exhibition opens on Thursday, 25 June, at the “Dimitrie Cantemir” Library in Ungheni.

Ion Calmis·23 June 2026· Explainer

#Cornova

The traditional houses of Ungheni's villages are vanishing. Documenting them has become “an emergency”

A village in Ungheni district entered sociology textbooks 95 years ago. Gusti's Cornova returns to Ungheni — in photographs

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