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The man who bought a garage to build a weightlifting gym. Two world champions came out of it

Gheorghe Gorencu worked six years in Spain, came back to Unțești and bought a garage that was up for sale in the village, to turn it into a weightlifting gym. He never charged rent, paid the electricity out of his own salary and took no money from the children. National-team lists name him as the coach of Nicoleta Cojocaru — from the age of eleven — and of Danu Secrieru. He died in 2023. Since 2025, the village of Unțești no longer appears at all in the national weightlifting squad lists.

Ion Calmis·13 July 2026· Analysis
Illustration: an old leather-bound book, open on a solid wooden table under warm light; a stylised red rooster rises graphically and poetically from the pages; no people in the frame.
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Vasile Vasilache, the writer from Unțești: 100 years since his birth, a censored novel and a silver coin

On 4 July 2026, 100 years passed since the birth — in the village of Unțești, Ungheni district — of Vasile Vasilache, one of the most original prose writers of Bessarabia's 1960s generation. His novel «Povestea cu cocoșul roșu» (The Tale of the Red Rooster, 1966) also brought him ostracism: the second part was struck down by Soviet censorship, and the book appeared in full only in 1986. For the centenary, the state honours him with a silver coin, a symposium at the Academy and an exhibition at the National Library — all in Chișinău. In Ungheni, the living trace is the lower-secondary school in his native village that bears his name.

Ion Calmis·9 July 2026· Explainer
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