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A panorama of the town of Ungheni in the warm light of a summer evening, with buildings, greenery and the Prut river in the distance, in a festive atmosphere.
LOCAL

564 years since the first record: Ungheni prepares its Municipality Days and a new twinning, with Tulcea

The City Hall has announced the programme of Ungheni's Municipality Days, running from 20 to 31 August. The celebration opens on 20 August for a precise reason: on that day, in 1462, the settlement is mentioned for the first time in a document — 564 years ago. The programme brings together the launch of a local-history yearbook, a folklore festival, concerts by performers with Ungheni roots and, on 27 August, the signing of a new twinning agreement, with the municipality of Tulcea in Romania. A guide to the twelve days and to the history behind them.

Ion Calmis·24 July 2026· Explainer
Young people from Ungheni at the «Freedom 250» reception on U.S. Independence Day, hosted by American Corner Ungheni inside the «Dimitrie Cantemir» Library; in the foreground, a facilitator tosses confetti.
LOCAL

America Turns 250. What Connects It to Ungheni — from an Oscar to a Fire Station

On 4 July, American Corner Ungheni marked «Freedom 250» — 250 years since U.S. independence. Behind a one-day reception, however, lies a story few people in Ungheni know: a screenwriter born in Ungheni wrote «The Apartment» and won an Oscar in Hollywood; in 1877 the Russo-Turkish war passed through Ungheni station, and an American officer wrote about it; from the old market town people left for New York and Philadelphia. And over the past three decades, America has left concrete traces — from bus stops and a fire station to an «American Corner» in the library. A documented inventory of what has been confirmed and what remains legend.

Ion Calmis·4 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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.
LOCAL

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.

Ion Calmis·2 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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An exhibition wall of framed black-and-white photographs of a village of old, in a warmly lit library reading room.
LOCAL

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
A lit candle and a tricolour ribbon on a monument's stone at dusk — a symbol of remembrance for those who fell in the War of the Dniester.
LOCAL

Four names on the monument, nine on the state list: the sons of the Ungheni district who fell on the Dniester in 1992

Thirty-four years after the June 1992 battles, the national commemoration of those who fell in the War of the Dniester can be read on the map of the Ungheni district too. At the monument, the town remembers four names, but the official state list — the “Book of Memory” — shows at least nine men born in the district who died that year, many of them at Tighina, in the very June days now being commemorated. Triunghi.md recovered their names, villages and where they fell.

Ion Calmis·22 June 2026· Explainer
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An old wooden freight wagon on rusty tracks at dusk, with a worn suitcase on the empty platform.
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The state compensates assets confiscated by the Soviet regime. In Ungheni, the memory of the deportations counts thousands of names

The Government has allocated over 1.8 million lei to compensate six people whose assets the communist regime confiscated. The sum is small, but it opens a door to a vast and unfinished reckoning: in the Ungheni district alone, the official catalogue of the victims of totalitarianism gathers thousands of names, from more than 60 localities. The law gives victims and heirs the right to compensation — but how many actually claim it?

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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