Răzeni is a commune in
Ialoveni District
Ialoveni () is a district ( ro, raion) in the central part of Moldova, with the administrative center at Ialoveni.
As of 1 January 2011, its population was 99,100.
History
Localities with the oldest documentary attestation of the district are: ...
,
Moldova
Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised state of Transnistr ...
. It is composed of two villages, Mileștii Noi and Răzeni.
''Clasificatorul unităților administrativ-teritoriale al Republicii Moldova'' (CUATM)
History
The Răzeni Massacre took place on June 22, 1941, when ten people were killed by the Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
authorities and buried in a mass grave
A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial. The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of execution, although an exact ...
.
Notable people
* Ion Inculeț
* Ion Pelivan
Ion Gheorghe Pelivan (April 1, 1876 in Răzeni – January 25, 1954 in Sighetu Marmației) was a Romanian politician.
In 1898, Ion Pelivan graduated from the Theological Seminary of Chișinău and in 1903 from the University of Tartu. Then ...
* Elena Alistar
See also
* Memorial to the victims of Răzeni Massacre
References
Communes of Ialoveni District
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