# Mayor of Chișinău

The Mayor of Chișinău, officially the General Mayor of the Municipality of Chișinău (Romanian: Primar general al municipiul 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

| Nº | Mayor | From | Until | Notes |
| 1 | Anghel Nour | 1817 | 1821 | First mayor of the city |
| 2 | Dimitrie Lovcinski | 1821 | 1831 | |
| 3 | Stavru Dimu | 1831 | 1833 | |
| (2) | Dimitrie Lovcinski | 1834 | 1836 | Second time serving as mayor |
| 4 | Pantelimon I. Sinadino | 1837 | 1839 | |
| 4 | Pantelimon I. Sinadino | 1840 | 1842 | Second time serving as mayor |
| (2) | Dimitrie Lovcinski | 1843 | 1845 | Second time serving as mayor |
| 5 | Dimitrie Durdufi | 1846 | 1848 | |
| 6 | Dimitrie Mincu | 1849 | 1854 | |
| 7 | Anghel Nicolau | 1855 | 1858 | |
| (6) | Dimitrie Mincu | 1858 | 1860 | Second time serving as mayor |
| (6) | Dimitrie Mincu | 1861 | 1866 | Third time serving as mayor |
| 8 | Adam Krijanovski | 1867 | 1869 | |
| 9 | Pavel Gumalic | 1870 | 1871 | |
| 10 | Clemente Șumanski | 1871 | 1877 | |
| 11 | Carol Schmidt | 1877 | 1903 | First ethnic German mayor of the city (more specifically Bessarabian German) |
| 12 | Leopold Siținski | 1904 | 1905 | |
| 13 | Pantelimon V. Sinadino | 1905 | 1910 | National Liberal Party (PNL) |
| 14 | Iulian Levinski | 1910 | 1917 | |

### Moldavian Democratic Republic

| Nº | Mayor | From | Until | Notes |
| 15 | Alexander Schmidt | 1917 | 1918 | Second ethnic German mayor of the city (more specifically Bessarabian German), son of Carol Schmidt |

### Kingdom of Romania

| Nº | Mayor | From | Until | Notes |
| 16 | Vladimir Herța | 1918 | 1919 | National Liberal Party (PNL) |
| 17 | Teodor Cojocaru | 1919 | 1920 | National Liberal Party (PNL) |
| (14) | Iulian Levinski | 1920 | 1922 | Second time serving as mayor |
| 18 | Vasile Bârcă | 1922 | 1923 | National Liberal Party (PNL) |
| 19 | Gherman Pântea | 1923 | 1923 | National Liberal Party (PNL) |
| 20 | Nicolae Bivol | 1923 | 1924 | National Liberal Party (PNL) |
| (18) | Vasile Bârcă | 1924 | 1925 | National Liberal Party (PNL) |
| (20) | Nicolae Bivol | 1925 | 1926 | National Liberal Party (PNL) |
| 21 | Sebastian Teodorescu | 1926 | 1927 | |
| (19) | Gherman Pântea | 1927 | 1928 | National Liberal Party (PNL) |
| 22 | Ion Negrescu | 1928 | 1931 | |
| 23 | Constantin Ionescu | 1931 | 1932 | |
| (19) | Gherman Pântea | 1932 | 1932 | National Liberal Party (PNL) |
| 24 | Dimitrie Bogos | 1932 | 1933 | National Peasants' Party (PNȚ) |
| 25 | Ion Costin | 1933 | 1937 | |
| – | Alexandru Sibirski (acting/ad interim) | 1937 | 1938 | Acting mayor |
| 26 | Constantin Dardan | 1938 | 1938 | |
| 27 | Reindhold Scheibler | 1938 | 1938 | Third ethnic German (more specifically Bessarabian German) mayor of the city |
| 28 | Vladimir Cristi | 1938 | 1940 | National Liberal Party (PNL) |
| 29 | Anibal Dobjanski | 1941 | 1941 | Bessarabian Polish |

### Moldavian SSR

Chairmen of the Chișinău City Executive Committee.
| Nº | Chairman | From | Until | Party |
| 1 | Nicolae Vizitei | 1944 | 1946 | Moldavian Communist Party under the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) |
| 2 | Dmitry Smirnov | 1946 | 1950 | Moldavian Communist Party under the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) |
| 3 | Konstantin Sablin | 1950 | 1953 | Moldavian Communist Party under the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) |
| 4 | Anatoly Maryutin | 1953 | 1955 | Communist Party of Moldavia under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| 5 | Boris Tanashevsky | 1955 | 1959 | Communist Party of Moldavia under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| 6 | Macar Godoba | 1959 | 1961 | Communist Party of Moldavia under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| 7 | Mihail Dieur | 1961 | 1966 | Communist Party of Moldavia under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| 8 | Anatoly Damaskin | 1966 | 1970 | Communist Party of Moldavia under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| 9 | Ivan Kuskevich | 1970 | 1973 | Communist Party of Moldavia under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| 10 | Vladimir Zakharov | 1973 | 1975 | Communist Party of Moldavia under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| 11 | Nicolae Uzun | 1975 | 1981 | Communist Party of Moldavia under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| 12 | Vladimir Semyonov | 1981 | 1985 | Communist Party of Moldavia under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| 13 | Mihail Platon | 1985 | 1987 | Communist Party of Moldavia under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| 14 | Ion Guțu | 1987 | 1989 | Communist Party of Moldavia under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| 15 | Vladimir Dobrea | 1989 | 1990 | Communist Party of Moldavia under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| 16 | Mihai Severovan | 1990 | 1990 | | Communist Party of Moldavia under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |

### Republic of Moldova

| Nº | Mayor | From | Until | Party | Election |
| 30 | Nicolae Costin | 1990 | 9 August 1994 | Popular Front (FPM) | — |
| 31 | Serafim Urechean | 9 August 1994 | 18 April 2005 | Our Moldova Alliance/Liberal Democratic Party (AMN/PLDM) | 1995 1999 2003 |
| – | Mihai Furtună (acting/ad interim) | 18 April 2005 | 28 April 2005 | Independent | — |
| – | Vasile Ursu (acting/ad interim) | 28 April 2005 | 25 January 2007 | Party of Communists (PCRM) | 2005 |
| – | Veaceslav Iordan (acting/ad interim) | 25 January 2007 | 18 June 2007 | Party of Communists (PCRM) | — |
| 32 | Dorin Chirtoacă | 18 June 2007 | 28 July 2017 | Liberal Party (PL) | 2007 2011 2015 |
| – | Nistor Grozavu (acting/ad interim) | 4 August 2017 | 6 November 2017 | Liberal Party (PL) | — |
| – | Silvia Radu (acting/ad interim) | 6 November 2017 | 25 April 2018 | Independent | — |
| – | 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 Party (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 Party (PPDA) | — |
| – | Adrian Talmaci (acting/ad interim) | 5 November 2019 | 11 November 2019 | Liberal Party (PL) | — |
| 34 | Ion Ceban | 11 November 2019 | present | Party of Socialists (PSRM) | 2019 |