Gallery of portraits of fighters dead in Transnistria War inaugurated at Chisinau city hall

Chisinau, 5 November /MOLDPRES/ - A gallery of portraits of fighters dead in the Transnistria War from 1992 was inaugurated at the Chisinau city hall today.  

The exhibition comprises over 50 portraits of those who sacrificed their lives for Moldova’s independence and territorial integrity: Filip Lupascu, Anatolie Popovici, Gheorghe Casu, Tudor Nestor, Petru Codreanu, Mihail Macari, Anatolie Calmatui and others.  

Contacted by MOLDPRES, the organizer of the event, head of the Charity Public Association, From Heart to Heart Maria Lupascu, the wife of the departed Filip Lupascu, said that this gallery was at its first issue.  

”We have been willing to have a gallery of the heroes dead for Moldova’s independence and territorial integrity a long time ago. We saw the portraits of heroes in more books and we thought it would be good to have also a museum, we are to open at the precincts of the former kindergarten No 90 on the Garii Street from the Moldovan capital,” Maria Lupascu said.   

In the context, a war veteran, one of the founders of the Association of the War Veterans from Moldova – 1992, Chisinau Municipality, Valeriu Ciobanu, said that, on 12 September 2017, the Chisinau Municipal Council had adopted two decisions to this effect: one on the building of a Church of Heroes with the dedicated day of Ruler Stefan the Great and Holy on the area of the former kindergarten No 90 and another decision on the leasing of the building of the former kindergarten for the arrangement of the Heroes’ Museum, National Centre of Patriotic Education and of the headquarters of the from Heart to Heart Charity Association.        

A group of priests officiated a religious serviced at the event.  

The gallery of portraits of fighter dead in the Transnistria War will be open till 8 November.  

The Transnistria War started on 2 March 1992. On 21 July 1992, Moldova and Russia signed a convention on the principles of peaceful settlement of the armed conflict. In August, the same year, Russian peacekeeping forces were introduced in the conflict zone. In 2010, Moldova’s parliament established the date of 2 March as day of commemoration of the heroes who died in the 1992 war for the defence of the country’s integrity and independence.

According to official data, 315 fighters were killed and 1,180 were injured during the Transnistria War.

(Reporter N. Roibu, editor A. Raileanu)