Vadim Pirogan

Vadim Pirogan
OR
Vadim Pirogan OR
Born	26 June 1921; Bălţi
Died	16 January 2007 (aged 85); Chişinău
Resting place	Chişinău
Education	Lviv Polytechnic
Known for	Muzeul Memoriei Neamului
Spouse	Veronica
Children	3
Parent	Ştefan Pirogan

Vadim Pirogan (28 June 1921 – 16 January 2007) was a Bessarabian activist and author.^[1] He was the head of the Communist Regime Victims Association and a member of the Moldovan Writers' Union.

Biography

Vadim Pirogan was born on 28 June 1921 in Bălţi. His father Ştefan Pirogan was mayor of Bălţi (1923–1934). He attended high school in Bălţi, where Eugen Coşeriu, Sergiu Grossu, Valeriu Gafencu, Ovidiu Creangă, Valentin Mândâcanu were his classmates^[2] Vadim Pirogan was arrested on 25 June 1941 and for five years, he was imprisoned at Tayshet forced labour camp.

Vadim Pirogan married to Veronica in 1952. He graduated from Lviv Polytechnic. He used to live in Lviv, but in 1989 he moved in Chişinău. Vadim Pirogan founded the Muzeul Memoriei Neamului in 2002. He was the president of the Communist Regime Victims Association (Romanian: Asociaţia Victimelor Regimului Communist si a Veteranilor de Razboi ai Armatei Romane din Republica Moldova) beginning in 1999.

Works

Vadim Pirogan, Cu gandul la tine, Basarabia mea
Vadim Pirogan, Pe drumurile pribegiei
Vadim Pirogan, Timpuri si oameni
Vadim Pirogan and Boris Movila, Destine romanesti
Vadim Pirogan, Calvarul

External links

Muzeul Memoriei Neamului website

Notes

^ "A murit Vadim Pirogan, veteran al luptei anticomuniste" [Ali Tajvidi, the 'permanent face' of Iranian music, has died] (in Romanian). BBCRomanian.com. 2006-08-15. Retrieved 2022-05-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
^ Literatura şi Arta, Un apostol al Neamului Romвnesc

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[1] "A murit Vadim Pirogan, veteran al luptei anticomuniste" [Ali Tajvidi, the 'permanent face' of Iranian music, has died] (in Romanian). BBCRomanian.com. 2006-08-15. Retrieved 2022-05-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)

[2] Literatura şi Arta, Un apostol al Neamului Romвnesc

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v t e Anti-communism in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1940–1991)
Political entities	Moldavian Democratic Republic Moldavian ASSR Moldavian SSR Bukovina Governorate Transnistria Governorate
Events	Soviet occupation Soviet deportations Romania in World War II Fântâna Albă massacre Tatarka common graves Operation North 1989 Moldovan civil unrest Independence
Anti-Soviet organizations	Arcașii lui Ștefan Black Army Democratic Agrarian Party Freedom Party Democratic Union of Freedom Sabia Dreptății Vasile Lupu High School Group Vocea Basarabiei
Activists and dissidents	Alexandru Baltagă Filimon Bodiu Olimpiada Bodiu Gheorghe Briceag Ion Codreanu Nicolae Costin Anton Crihan Nicolae Dabija Mircea Druc Valeriu Gafencu Gheorghe Ghimpu Paul Goma Ion Hadîrcǎ Pan Halippa Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya Nicolae Lupan Dumitru Matcovschi Ion Moraru Vasile Odobescu Gherman Pântea Ion Pelivan Vadim Pirogan Isidor Sârbu Grigore Singurel Nichita Smochină Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr Ion Vasilenco Victor Zâmbrea
Persecutors	NKVD KGB Militsiya Securitate Nikita Salogor Ivan Bodiul Pyotr Grigoryevich Borodin
Organisations, places, events	Literatura și Arta Popular Front of Moldova Stephen the Great Monument Glasul Deșteptarea Memorial to Victims of Stalinist Repression Monument to the Victims of the Soviet Occupation Muzeul Memoriei Neamului
See also Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova

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