Dubăsari
Dubăsari
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Dubăsari (
Name
The origin of the town name is the plural form of the Romanian archaic word dubăsar ("boatman"), a derivative of dubă ("a small wooden boat"), so "Dubăsari" means "boatmen".
History
Dubăsari is the site of one of the oldest settlements in Moldova, and the Transnistrian region. Stone Age artifacts have been found in the area, and there are several kurgans (presumed Scythian) around the city. First mentions of modern Dubăsari date to the beginning of the 16th century, as a fair populated by Moldavian peasants. The settlement became part of the Russian Empire in 1792 and was granted city status in 1795. It was part of Kherson Governorate from 1803 to 1922.
The murder of a Ukrainian boy, Mikhail Rybachenko, in Dubăsari became one of the triggers of the Kishinev pogrom after the Bessarabetz paper insinuated that he had been murdered by the Jewish community for the purpose of using their blood in the preparation of matzo for Passover.[1] Unlike in Kishinev, the authorities at Dubăsari acted to prevent the pogrom in the town.[2][3]
In 1924–1940, Dubăsari was part of the Soviet-created
In 1951–1954, the Dubăsari dam and a 48
Dubăsari and its suburbs were the sites of major conflict during 1990–1992 that eventually culminated in the
The city's economy was significantly damaged during the war in 1992.
Climate
| Climate data for Dubăsari (1991-2020) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 1.3 (34.3) |
3.8 (38.8) |
9.9 (49.8) |
17.5 (63.5) |
23.5 (74.3) |
27.5 (81.5) |
29.8 (85.6) |
29.4 (84.9) |
23.5 (74.3) |
16.3 (61.3) |
8.7 (47.7) |
3.2 (37.8) |
16.2 (61.1) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −1.7 (28.9) |
−0.1 (31.8) |
4.7 (40.5) |
11.3 (52.3) |
17.1 (62.8) |
21.2 (70.2) |
23.3 (73.9) |
22.7 (72.9) |
17.2 (63.0) |
10.8 (51.4) |
5.1 (41.2) |
0.2 (32.4) |
11.0 (51.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −4.4 (24.1) |
−3.2 (26.2) |
0.5 (32.9) |
5.8 (42.4) |
11.3 (52.3) |
15.5 (59.9) |
17.5 (63.5) |
16.7 (62.1) |
11.9 (53.4) |
6.5 (43.7) |
2.2 (36.0) |
−2.3 (27.9) |
6.5 (43.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 36 (1.4) |
28 (1.1) |
30 (1.2) |
37 (1.5) |
55 (2.2) |
60 (2.4) |
67 (2.6) |
46 (1.8) |
49 (1.9) |
40 (1.6) |
43 (1.7) |
48 (1.9) |
539 (21.3) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 74 |
| Source: NOAA NCEI[4]
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Population
In 1989, the population of the city was 35,806, including 15,414
, and 165 others and non-declared.Notable natives
- Nikolai Sklifosovsky(1836 in Dubăsari — 1904) a Russian surgeon and physiologist of Greek origin
- Pyotr Rachkovsky (1853 in Dubăsari – 1910) was chief of Okhrana, the secret service in Imperial Russia. He was based in Paris from 1885 to 1902.
- Ion Creangă (politician) (1883 in Corjova - ??) was a Bessarabian politician
- Isidor Sârbu (1886 in Corjova - 1980) was a Moldavian victim of dekulakization.
- Yosef Baratz (1890 in Coşniţa - 1968 in Israel) was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician.
- Nichita Smochină (1894 in Mahala – 1980 in Bucharest) was a Transnistrian-born activist, scholar and political figure, especially noted for campaigning on behalf of ethnic Romanians in the Soviet Union
- Leonid Corneanu (1909 in Coşniţa - 1957 in Chișinău) was a Moldovan poet, playwright and folklorist.
- Petru Soltan (1931 in Coşniţa – 2016 in Chișinău) was a Moldovan mathematician and politician
- Timofei Moșneaga (1932 in Corjova – 2014) was a Moldovan physician and public figure who served as the Health Minister of Moldova from 1994 to 1997.
- Vlad Ioviţă(1935 in Cocieri - 1983 in Chişinău) was a writer from Moldova.
- Anatol Codru (1936 in Molovata Nouă - 2010 in Chişinău) was a writer and film director
- Vladimir Voronin (born 1941 in Corjova) a Moldovan politician. He was the third President of Moldova from 2001 until 2009
- Ștefan Urâtu (born 1951 in Ustia) is a politician from Moldova.
- Vlad Grecu, (born 1959 in Dubăsarii Vechi) a Moldovan writer, now lives in Chişinău
- Central Election Commission of Ukraine
- Igor Pugaci (born 1975 in Dubăsari) is a retired a Moldovan road bicycle racer.
- Anna Odobescu (born 1991 in Dubăsari) is a singer who represented Moldova at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv.
In fiction
- The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner is set in Dubăsari, before and during the 1903
Notes
- political status is disputed. It considers itself to be an independent state, but this is not recognised by any UN member state. The Moldovangovernment and the international community consider Transnistria a part of Moldova's territory.
References
- ^ Davitt, Michael (1903). Within The Pale. London: Hurst and Blackett. pp. 98–100.
- ^
Rosenthal, Herman; Rosenthal, Max (1901–1906). "Kishinef (Kishinev)". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
- ISBN 978-0-521-52851-1.
- NOAA. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ "pridnestrovie.net". Archived from the original on 2010-07-26. Retrieved 2009-07-20.
- OCLC 1009182096.)
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - ^ "The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner | Jewish Book Council". www.jewishbookcouncil.org (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2018-10-28.
External links
- (in Polish) Dubosary (Dubăsari) in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (1881)
- Site of city of Dubăsari
- Dubăsari (in Romanian)