The Ştefan cel Mare Central Park was originally laid out in 1818.īy 1834, an imperial townscape with broad and long roads had emerged as a result of a generous development plan, which divided the city roughly into two areas: The old part of the town – with its irregular building structures – and a newer City Center and station. Gavril Bănulescu-Bodoni was Metropolitan of Chişinău between 18. The mayor of Chişinău office was established in 1817 as City Duma and its first mayors there were the captain Anghel Nour (1817–1821). In 1856, Chişinău was the Russian Empire's fifth biggest city, after Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa, and Riga. The growth of population was due to the immigrants from Russian Empire. If from 1812 till 1818 the Chişinău population had increased from 7 up to 18 thousand people, by the end of the 19th century it had grown up to 110,000. Having got an official status of town in 1818, Chişinău became a centre of the Bessarabian district and since 1873 the centre of the Bessarabian province. In 1812 Chișinău came under Russian imperial administration. There is a graveyard near the church in which some famous Moldavian personalities are buried. At the time it was built, the Bâc River was navigable and formed a large reservoir in front of the church. The name of the spring - "chisla noua" - is believed to be the archaic Romanian for "new spring".ĭuring the Russo-Turkish Wars Chișinău was twice set on fire, in 17.īuilt by the boyar Constantin Râşcanu in 1777, Râşcani Church stands top of the hill overlooking the Bâc River. The stone block marking the location of the water spring that gave name to Chișinău is set at the foot of the hill upon which stands Măzărache Church. It is a monument built according to the typical indigenous medieval Moldavian architecture of the 15-16th centuries the church was built on the place on a fortress destroyed by the Ottomans in the 17th century. Măzărache Church is considered to be the oldest Chișinău, erected by Vasile Măzărache in 1752.
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