page_title: Bender, Moldova
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Bender, Moldova / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Română: Tamara Buciuceanu, în Piața Timpului din București
context_page_description: Bender is a city within the internationally recognized borders of Moldova under de facto control of the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic since 1992. It is located on the western bank of the river Dniester in the Romanian historical region of Bessarabia.
  Together with its suburb Proteagailovca, the city forms a municipality, which is separate from Transnistria according to Moldovan law. Bender is located in the buffer zone established at the end of the 1992 War of Transnistria. While the Joint Control Commission has overriding powers in the city, Transnistria has de facto administrative control.
  The fortress of Tighina was one of the important historic fortresses of the Principality of Moldova.
  It is also the home town of former president of Romania, Prof. Dr. Emil Constantinescu.
context_section_description: Mehmed Selim Pasha (1771 in Bender – 1831 in Damascus) nickname: "Benderli" was an Ottoman statesman and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire 1824/28
  Lev Berg (1876 in Bender – 1950 in Leningrad) a leading Jewish Russian geographer, biologist and ichthyologist
  Boris Solotareff (1889 in Bender – 1966 in New York) was a Russian painter. His work was in the mainstream of Eastern European Expressionism, with influences of Art Deco from the time when he lived in Paris
  Jerzy Neyman (1894 in Bendery – 1981) was a Polish mathematician and statistician
  Baruch Agadati (1895 in Bendery – 1976 in Israel) was a Russian Empire-born Israeli classical ballet dancer, choreographer, painter, and film producer and director
  Sir Michael Postan FBA (1899 in Bendery – 1981 in Cambridge) a British historian
  Yosef Kushnir (born 1900 in Bender - 1983 in Israel) was an Israeli politician who served in the Knesset
  Maurice Raizman (1905 in Bendery – 1974 in Paris) was a French chess master.
  Yevgeny Fyodorov (1910 in Bendery - 1981) was a Soviet geophysicist, statesman, public figure and academician
  Zrubavel Gilad (1912 in Bender - 1988 in Israel) was a Hebrew poet, editor and translator
  Tamara Buciuceanu (born 1929 in Tighina - 2019 in Bucharest) a Romanian stage, screen and TV personality
  Ilarion Ciobanu (1931 in Ciucur, Tighina – 2008 in Bucharest) was a Romanian actor
  Emil Constantinescu (born 1939 in Tighina) a Romanian professor and politician, who served as the third President of Romania, from 1996 to 2000
  Petro Poroshenko (born 1965) is the fifth President of Ukraine. He spent his childhood and youth in Bendery where his father Oleksiy was heading a machine building plant
  Vadim Krasnoselsky  (born 1970) is a Transnistrian politician who was elected President in 2016. In 1978, aged 8 he lived in Bender when his father was transferred to a local military base
  Ilie Cazac (born 1985 in Tighina) a former Moldovan tax inspector and political prisoner
caption: Tamara Buciuceanu
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