The State Agrarian University of Moldova ( ro, Universitatea Agrară de Stat din Moldova) is a university located in
Chişinău,
Moldova
Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The List of states ...
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Organization
The State Agrarian University of Moldova (SAUM) is the only higher agricultural education institution in the Republic of Moldova and the first higher education institution founded in Chişinău. SAUM has a history that began on 9 April 1933, when King Carol II of Romania
Carol II (4 April 1953) was King of Romania from 8 June 1930 until his forced abdication on 6 September 1940. The eldest son of Ferdinand I, he became crown prince upon the death of his grand-uncle, King Carol I in 1914. He was the first of t ...
promulgated the Law concerning the transformation of Agricultural Sciences Section of the University of Iaşi
The Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (Romanian: ''Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza"''; acronym: UAIC) is a public university located in Iași, Romania. Founded by an 1860 decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza, under whom the former Academia Mih ...
into the ''Faculty of Agricultural Sciences'' with its center in Chişinău. In 1938, the institution was renamed the ''Faculty of Agronomy'' and became administratively part of the newly established Gheorghe Asachi Polytechnic School Gheorghe is a Romanian given name and surname. It is a variant of George, also a name in Romanian but with soft Gs. It may refer to:
Given name
* Gheorghe Adamescu
* Gheorghe Albu
* Gheorghe Alexandrescu
* Gheorghe Andriev
* Gheorghe Apostol
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In 1940, following the occupation of Bessarabia by the Soviet Union, the faculty from Chișinău became an independent institution as the ''Chișinău Agricultural Institute'', with four faculties (from 1944): Agronomy, Viticulture, Horticulture, and Animal Sciences. Other faculties are established over time: Mechanization of Agriculture (1950), Land Improvements (1954), Agrarian Economics (1965), Veterinary Medicine (1976). In 1991, the name of the institution was changed to the ''State Agrarian University of Moldova''.
Gallery
File:Sfatul Ţării Palace, Chişinău.jpg, Sfatul Țării Palace was the first seat of the University in the 1930s
Notable alumni
* Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's former foreign minister
*Igor Dodon
Igor Dodon (; born 18 February 1975) is a Moldovan politician who previously served as the president of Moldova from 23 December 2016 to 24 December 2020. He currently serves as the leader of the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova. H ...
, Moldova's fifth president
* Mircea Snegur, Moldova's first president
* Andrei Sangheli, Moldova's prime-minister during 1992-1997
See also
* List of universities in Moldova
This is a list of universities in Moldova.
Public institutions
Private institutions
See also
* Education in Moldova
References
External links
Instituţii de învăţămînt acreditate (Accredited educational institutions) from the Moldova ...
* Education in Moldova
Education in Moldova is currently the responsibility of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research.
History
In 1990, the average Moldovan spent six years in school, and only 30% of people older than 15 had completed secondary education. A ...
References
External links
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Educational institutions established in 1933
Education in Chișinău
Buildings and structures in Chișinău
Universities in Moldova
1933 establishments in Romania