Mayor of Chișinău

The Mayor of Chișinău, officially the General Mayor of the Municipality of Chișinău (), is the head of the executive branch of Chișinău's government and a member of the city's Municipal Council.

History

The first mayor of Chișinău was Anghel Nour in 1817. In 1941, the office was abolished. After the end of the Soviet era and the re-establishment of the office in 1990, Nicolae Costin became the first democratically elected mayor.

List of mayors Throughout the passing of time, the mayors of the city of Chișinău have been the following ones:

Russian Empire

NºMayorFromUntilNotes1Anghel Nour18171821First mayor of the city2Dimitrie Lovcinski182118313Stavru Dimu18311833(2)Dimitrie Lovcinski18341836Second time serving as mayor4Pantelimon I. Sinadino1837183918401842Second time serving as mayor(2)Dimitrie Lovcinski18431845Second time serving as mayor5Dimitrie Durdufi184618486Dimitrie Mincu184918547Anghel Nicolau18551858(6)Dimitrie Mincu18581860Second time serving as mayor18611866Third time serving as mayor8Adam Krijanovski186718699Pavel Gumalic1870187110Clemente Șumanski1871187711Carol Schmidt 18771903First ethnic German mayor of the city (more specifically Bessarabian German)12Leopold Siținski 1904190513Pantelimon V. Sinadino 19051910National Liberal Party (PNL)14Iulian Levinski 19101917

Moldavian Democratic Republic

NºMayorFromUntilNotes15Alexander Schmidt19171918Second ethnic German mayor of the city (more specifically Bessarabian German), son of Carol Schmidt

Kingdom of Romania

NºMayorFromUntilNotes16Vladimir Herța 19181919National Liberal Party (PNL)17Teodor Cojocaru 19191920(14)Iulian Levinski 19201922Second time serving as mayor18Vasile Bârcă 19221923National Liberal Party (PNL)19Gherman Pântea19231923–Yehuda Leib Tsirelson (acting/ad interim)19231923Acting mayor20Nicolae Bivol19231924National Liberal Party (PNL)(18)Vasile Bârcă19241925(20)Nicolae Bivol1925192621Sebastian Teodorescu19261927(19)Gherman Pântea19271928National Liberal Party (PNL)22Ion Negrescu1928193123Constantin Ionescu19311932(19)Gherman Pântea19321932National Liberal Party (PNL)24Dimitrie Bogos19321933National Peasants' Party (PNȚ)25Ion Costin19331937–Alexandru Sibirski (acting/ad interim)19371938Acting mayor26Constantin Dardan 1938193827Reindhold Scheibler19381938Third ethnic German (more specifically Bessarabian German) mayor of the city28Vladimir Cristi 19381940National Liberal Party (PNL)29Anibal Dobjanski 19411941Bessarabian Polish

Moldavian SSR Chairmen of the Chișinău City Executive Committee. NºChairmanFromUntilParty1 Nicolae Vizitei19441946Moldavian Communist Partyunder the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks)2Dmitry Smirnov194619503Konstantin Sablin195019534Anatoly Maryutin19531955Communist Party of Moldaviaunder the Communist Party of the Soviet Union5Boris Tanashevsky195519596Macar Godoba195919617Mihail Dieur196119668Anatoly Damaskin196619709Ivan Kuskevich1970197310Vladimir Zakharov1973197511Nicolae Uzun1975198112Vladimir Semyonov1981198513Mihail Platon1985198714Ion Guțu1987198915Vladimir Dobrea1989199016Mihai Severovan1990

Republic of Moldova

NºMayorFromUntilPartyElection30Nicolae Costin 19909 August 1994Popular Front (FPM)—31Serafim Urechean 9 August 199418 April 2005 Our Moldova Alliance/Liberal Democratic Party (AMN/PLDM)1995 1999 2003 –Mihai Furtună (acting/ad interim)18 April 200528 April 2005 Independent—–Vasile Ursu (acting/ad interim)28 April 2005 25 January 2007Party of Communists (PCRM)2005–Veaceslav Iordan (acting/ad interim)25 January 2007 18 June 2007 Party of Communists (PCRM)—32Dorin Chirtoacă 18 June 2007 28 July 2017Liberal Party (PL)2007 20112015–Nistor Grozavu (acting/ad interim)4 August 2017 6 November 2017Liberal Party (PL)—–Silvia Radu (acting/ad interim)6 November 2017 25 April 2018Independent– Ruslan Codreanu (acting/ad interim) 25 April 2018 4 July 2019 European People's Party (PPEM)– Adrian Talmaci (acting/ad interim) 4 July 2019 8 October 2019 Liberal Party (PL)33 Andrei Năstase 8 October 2019 10 October 2019 Dignity and Truth Platform (PPDA) 2018– Adrian Talmaci (acting/ad interim) 10 October 2019 4 November 2019 Liberal Party (PL)—(33) Andrei Năstase 4 November 2019 5 November 2019 Dignity and Truth Platform (PPDA)– Adrian Talmaci (acting/ad interim) 5 November 2019 11 November 2019 Liberal Party (PL)34 Ion Ceban 11 November 2019 Incumbent National Alternative Movement (MAN) 20192023

See also Timeline of Chișinău