Petru Pascari

Petru Pascari
Pascari in 1976
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Moldavian SSR
In office
10 January 1990 – 26 May 1990
Preceded byIvan Calin
Succeeded byMircea Druc (as Prime Minister of SSR Moldova)
In office
24 April 1970 – 1 August 1976
Preceded byAlexandru Diordiță
Succeeded bySemion Grossu
Personal details
Born(1929-09-22)22 September 1929
Died20 November 2025(2025-11-20) (aged 96)
PartyCommunist Party of Moldavia1
1. Ivan Bodiul and Petru Lucinschi were first secretaries of the Communist Party of Moldova at that time.

Petru Pascari (Russian: Пётр Андреевич Паскарь; 22 September 1929 – 20 November 2025) was a Soviet and Moldovan politician. He was on two occasions the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Moldavian SSR: 24 April 1970 – 1 August 1976 (1st time) and 10 January 1990 – 26 May 1990 (2nd time).

Life and career

Petru Pascari was born on 22 September 1929 in the small village of Stroenți (Stroiești), in the north of Transnistria, in Rîbnița District.

From 1946 to 1949, he worked at a wine-making technical school in the village of Saharna before enrolling in the Chisinau Agricultural Institute (now State Agrarian University of Moldova). For ten years after he worked as an agronomist before becoming a minister in the cabinet. In December 1962, he became Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova. He served his first stinct as premier in April 1970, at the same time serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Moldavian SSR. In July 1976, he was appointed First Deputy Chairman of Gosplan. In early 1990, he returned to Moldova to serve as premier for a second time.[1]

In June 1990, he became a personal pensioner and lived in Moscow.[2]

Pascari died on 20 November 2025, at the age of 96.[3]

Honours and awards

References

  1. ^ "Паскарь Петр Андреевич". bse.sci-lib.com. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Посольство Республики Молдова в Российской Федерации | Министерство иностранных дел и европейской интеграции Республики Молдова". rusia.mfa.gov.md. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  3. ^ "Ambasada Republicii Moldova în Federația Rusă | Ministerul Afacerilor Externe și Integrării Europene al Republicii Moldova".
  4. ^ "Ordinul Republicii" (in Russian).