Corjova is a commune in

Dubăsari District The Dubăsari District () is a district in the east of Moldova, with the administrative center at Cocieri. As of January 1, 2011, its population was 35,200. This does not include the 715 people that live in the village of Roghi, which is control ...

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. Located on the eastern bank of the River Dniester, it consists of two villages, ''Corjova'' and ''Mahala'', with a total population of 3,231. The

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language

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Lyceum is located in Corjova village.

History

During the

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, it was considered a

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of the nearby city of

Dubăsari Dubăsari ( ro, Dubăsari , Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet: Дубэсарь) or Dubossary (russian: Дубоссары; yi, דובאסאר; uk, Дубоcсари) is a city in Transnistria, with a population of 23,650. Claimed by both the Republic ...

, but has since separated from the city and elects its own mayor. During the 1992 War of Transnistria the village was the scene of heavy fighting. After the war it was divided between a part controlled by the government of Moldova and a part controlled by the secessionist government of

Transnistria Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), is an unrecognised breakaway state that is internationally recognised as a part of Moldova. Transnistria controls most of the narrow strip of land between the Dniester riv ...

. On 13 May 2007, Transnistrian separatist authorities briefly detained Valeriu Mițul, the mayor of Corjova, and Iurie Coțofan, a Dubăsari district councillor. On 3 June 2007, Iurie Coțofan was again detained. Transnistrian ''militsiya'' (police force) did not allow the inhabitants to participate in Moldovan elections. Valentin Besleag, a candidate for mayoral office, was also detained by the separatist authorities on 2 June. In February 2023. the mayor of the commune, Sergiu Oprea, said in an interview with

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that the work of local Moldovan police and attempts to organize a census of the population are restricted by Transnistrian authorities.

Population

Notable natives

Ion Creangă Ion Creangă (; also known as Nică al lui Ștefan a Petrei, Ion Torcălău and Ioan Ștefănescu; March 1, 1837 – December 31, 1889) was a Moldavian, later Romanian writer, raconteur and schoolteacher. A main figure in 19th-century Romania ...

, Moldovan politician * Valeriu Mițul, anti-separatist activist, Mayor of Corjova *

Timofei Moșneaga Timofei Moșneaga (; 6 March 1932 – 1 June 2014) was a Moldovan physician and politician who served as the Ministry of Health (Moldova), Minister of Health of Moldova from 1994 to 1997. He was the Director of the Timofei Moșneaga Republican Cli ...

, Moldovan physician and Minister of Health * Isidor Sârbu, Romanian victim of Soviet repression, Mayor of Corjova *

Nichita Smochină Nichita Parfeni Smochină (; Moldovan Cyrillic: Никита Парфени Смокинэ, Russian: Никита Парфеньевич Смокина, ''Nikita Parfenievich Smokina''; also known as Mihai Florin; March 14, 1894 – December 14, 19 ...

, Romanian scholar and political figure *

Vladimir Voronin Vladimir Voronin (; born 25 May 1941) is a Soviet and Moldovan politician. He was the third president of Moldova from 2001 until 2009 and has been the First Secretary of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM) since 1994. He ...

, 3rd President of Moldova

References

External links

Interview with Valeriu Mocan, counselor in Corjova
Communes of Dubăsari District {{Dubăsari-geo-stub