Chisinau celebrates both its birthday and the Chisinau Day

Although starting with 2000, on every October 14, Chisinau celebrates Chisinau Day, promotional campaigns launched by economical agents with this occasion name the celebration as Chisinau birthday. According to sources from the Academy of Science, the confusion is caused by the fact that economical agents do not want to accept the reality, because there is no control of publicity texts, and because of the historical truth that Chisinau was first recorded as a rural establishment at the beginning of October 1436. According to a historical document from 1436, in the middle of the forest with grazing grounds surrounded by 7 hills, on the Bic River, near the Cheseneu spring, an establishment was founded on the commercial road Iasi-Bender-Krimeea. Due to the favorable location, in the 17th century Chisinau transformed into a small commercial and craftsmanship center. It is from the 17th century that Chisinau is recorded as a city that naturally evolved in the Bic banks. By 1812, its borders lay on the actual Dosoftei and Varlaam Streets, and the most luxurious zone was the actual Alexandru cel Bun Street. According to the painter and the historian of Chisinau, Lica Sainciuc, in 1812, after Basarabia was annexed by the Russians, they intended to set the capital of the gubernia in Bender, but Bishop Gavriil Banulescu-Bodoni intervened with the Russian authorities to set the capital in Chisinau. After the city was appointed as capital, architect Mihail Ozmidov elaborated the project of the new city – Alexandrovscaia region, where Russian colonists settled. During time, the city kept spreading up the hill, and by the end of the 19th century had its borders on the actual Mateevici Street, Lica Sainciuc states. In those years the Metropolis and the Cathedral were built, afterwards the Belfry and the Saint Gates were built. Because the lower region was not populated by aristocracy and the wealthier persons, this remained to be a uncared district. The cited source claims that after the Second World War the old city was demolished, along with historical buildings. The current Renasterii Boulevard has been projected by architect Sciusev and laid through the center of the Old Market, and churches and architectural monuments were destructed. For three times Chisinau has been burnt by Turks and Tatars, in 1944 Russian bombardments completely destroyed it, but every time the city was recreated, and is now a city of European level. The capital of the Republic of Moldova has a surface of approx. 4 thousand square meters and has a population of almost a million.