Gheorghe Ghimpu

Gheorghe Ghimpu
Gheorghe Ghimpu on August 30, 1992

Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 1990–1994
Personal details
Born	(1937-07-26)July 26, 1937 Coloniţa, Romania (now Moldova)
Died	November 13, 2000(2000-11-13) (aged 63) Chişinău
Resting place	Coloniţa
Political party	Romanian National Party
Other political affiliations	Popular Front of Moldova National Patriotic Front
Spouse(s)	Zina
Children	Oana Corneliu
Alma mater	T. G. Shevchenko University Academy of Sciences of the USSR
Profession	Professor Physicist
Religion	Eastern Orthodoxy
Parents	Irina Ursu Toader Ghimpu

Gheorghe Ghimpu (July 26, 1937 in Coloniţa – November 13, 2000) was a Romanian politician and a political prisoner in the former Soviet Union and then Moldova.

Early life

Gheorghe Ghimpu was born on July 26, 1937 in Coloniţa, a village in Bessarabia, then Romania. His mother, Irina Ursu (daughter of Haralambie Ursu) died in 2003; she worked at the local kolkhoz. His father, Toader Ghimpu (death in 1980), was an elementary school teacher. Gheorghe Ghimpu is the oldest brother of Simion Ghimpu (born May 24, 1939), Visarion, Valentina (mother of Dorin Chirtoacă) and Mihai Ghimpu.

Gheorghe Ghimpu completed his studies at T. G. Shevchenko University in Tiraspol. Then he obtained his PhD at the Institute of Biological Physics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow. Gheorghe Ghimpu was a teacher in Străşeni and a professor at T. G. Shevchenko University in Tiraspol and the Moldova State University in Chişinău.

He was married to Zina and had two children, Oana and Corneliu.

Political activity

Between 1969 and 1971, he was a founder of the clandestine National Patriotic Front of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, established by several young intellectuals in Chişinău, totaling over 100 members, vowing to fight for the establishment of a Moldovan Democratic Republic, its secession from the Soviet Union and union with Romania. In December 1971, following an informative note from Ion Stănescu, the President of the Council of State Security of the Romanian Socialist Republic, to Yuri Andropov, the chief of KGB, Gheorghe Ghimpu as well as Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr, Valeriu Graur, and Alexandru Şoltoianu were arrested and later sentenced to long prison terms. He was sentenced on July 13, 1972. Gheorghe Ghimpu spent 6 years in prison (1972-1978), as result of his political activities.

Ghimpu took part in the Moldovan national movement and was a supporter of the independence of the Moldovan SSR from Soviet Union. He was a founding member of the Popular Front of Moldova and a member of the Moldovan Parliament (1990-1994).

He died in Chişinău on November 13, 2000, after an unclarified traffic accident (near Donduşeni on October 27, 2000).^[1]

Legacy

The Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova will study and analyze the 1940-1991 period of the communist regime.

Gallery

At Parliament of Moldova on April 27, 1990
A Popular Front meeting (March 7, 1991)
Gheorghe Ghimpu's grave

References

↑ New volume by the late Gheorghe Ghimpu will appear by yearend (azi.md)

Anti-communism in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1917-1991)

Political entities	Bessarabia Bukovina Moldavian Democratic Republic Moldavian ASSR Moldavian SSR

Events	Soviet occupation Soviet deportations Romania during World War II Fântâna Albă massacre Tatarka common graves Operation North 1989 Moldova civil unrest

Anti-Soviet organizations	Arcaşii lui Ştefan Black Army Democratic Agrarian Party Freedom Party Democratic Union of Freedom Sabia Dreptăţii "Vasile Lupu" High School Group Vocea Basarabiei

Activists and dissidents	Alexandru Baltagă Filimon Bodiu Olimpiada Bodiu Gheorghe Briceag Ion Codreanu Gheorghe Ghimpu Pan Halippa Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya Ion Moraru Vasile Odobescu Ion Pelivan Vadim Pirogan Ion Vasilenco Victor Zâmbrea

Persecutors	NKVD KGB Securitate Ivan Bodiul Pyotr Grigoryevich Borodin

Organisations, places, events	Literatura şi Arta Popular Front of Moldova Stephen the Great Monument Marea Adunare Naţionalǎ Glasul Deşteptarea Memorial to Victims of Stalinist Repression Monument to the Victims of the Soviet Occupation Muzeul Memoriei Neamului

1988-1991, people	Nicolae Costin Nicolae Dabija Mircea Druc Gheorghe Ghimpu Ion Hadîrcǎ Dumitru Matcovschi

The political diaspora	Anton Crihan Paul Goma Nicolae Lupan Grigore Singurel

See also Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova

Popular Front of Moldova

Topics	Deșteptarea Țara 1990 election Grand National Assembly, Chișinău 1989 Bridge of Flowers Stephen the Great Monument Capitoline Wolf, Chișinău Ion Hadârcă Nicolae Costin Gheorghe Ghimpu

Druc Cabinet	Mircea Druc Valeriu Muravschi Nicolae Țîu Alexandru Ion Barbu Andrei Sangheli Nicolae Mătcaș Ion Ungureanu Gheorghe Ghidirim Alexei Barbăneagră Tudor Botnaru Ion Costaș

Moldovan Parliament 1990–1994

Topics	1990 election Popular Front of Moldova Declaration of Independence of Moldova

MPs	Andrei Baştovoi Anatol Şalaru Victor Pavlic Ilie Mocanu Vasile Gudima Andrei Ţurcanu Mihai Poiată Nicolae Robu Vasile Nedelciuc Alexandru Moşanu Ion Popa Constantin Culea Gheorghe Cârlan Mihai Sâromeatnicov Valeriu Cibotaru Valentin Mândâcanu Titu Serghei Pavel Lupăcescu Mihai Bejan Dumitru Guţu Jorj Crisico Mihai Străjescu Vitalie Ustroi Dumitru Cereş Anatol Ivanov Petru Soltan Alexandru Gorodnicenco Iurie Maxuta Vladimir Dobrea Nicolae Grosu Nicolae Alexei Ion Eremia Dumitru Braşoveanu Elisei Secrieru Vlad Pascaru Teodor Macrinici Vasile Pruteanu Dumitru Cernei Nicolae Domente Gheorghe Bogdanov Iurie Timoşenco Vasile Basoc Ion Borşevici Anton Spânu Tudor Lefter Andrei Munteanu Gheorghe Siumbeli Gheorghe Nechit Dumitru Holban Grigore Cuşnir Gheorghe Răducan Fiodor Nirean Sergiu Fandofan Ion Tacu Mihai Scutaru Mihai Ciorici Ilarion Guidea Ion Scutaru Mihai Lazăr Nicolae Misail Ion Tanas Vasile Para Valeriu Jardan Alexandru Ohotnicov Valentin Colun Semion Guranda Sergiu Argatu Vasile Şova Victor Reabcici Valentin Nicolaenco Ion Negură Nicolae Stadinciuc Tudor Mogâldea Nicolae Malachi Vasile Vartic Nicolae Todos Alexandru Arseni Mihai Cotorobai Spiridon Martâniuc Dumitru Grosu Nicolae Moraru Mihai Druţă Vasile Şevcenco Gheorghe Amihalachioaie Evgheni Berdnikov Iuri Atamanenko Ion Rusu Ludmila Laşcionova Pavel Gusac Dumitru Moţpan Vasile Domente Danil Matcin Mihai Popovici Ion Ciuntu Valentin Krîlov Vladimir Solonari Anatol Rusanov Ion Novac Ion Mărgineanu Aurel Saulea Ananie Badan Valerian Gherman Afanasie Chechiu Ion Madan Lidia Istrati Elena Bălan Olga Ojoga Dumitru Noroc Ion Prisăcaru Ion Stepanenco Valeriu Lebedev Victor Tocan Nicolae Proca Constantin Bogdan Ion Butnaru Ion Neagu Gheorghe Beliciuc Dumitru Postovan Stepan Plaţinda Ion Chiriac Petru Tărâţă Vladimir Carauş Grigore Cuşmăunsă Ion Palii Călin Botica Valeriu Obreja Serghei Popa Gavril Frangu Mihai Rusu Sergiu Manea Ion Ţurcan Anatol Zelenschi Ludmila Scalnâi Anatol Şaragov Eugen Popuşoi Grigore Bordeianu Anatol Chiriac Ilia Trombiţki Vladimir Agachi Piotr Şornikov Vitalie Zavgorodni Gheorghe Hioară Victor Berlinschi Anatol Ivanov Vasile Nestor Sergiu Coşceev Marin Beleuţă Valentin Dolganiuc Petru Poiată Gheorghe Slabu Dumitru Postovan Ion Lapaci Victor Puşcaş Ion Buga Pantelei Pârvan Alecu Reniţă Iacob Negru Ion Popov Petru Lucinschi Tănase Gheorghe Trestianu Valentin Lefter Mihai Dimitriu Petru Muntean Ion Ungureanu Ion Cojocaru Valeriu Serjant Gheorghe Mazilu Vasile Ursachi Iovu Bivol Petru Griciuc Andrei Cubasov Vasile Costov Constantin Sahanovschi Sergiu Chircă Petru Chimirciuc Alexandru Buruian Zosim Bodiu Mihai Muşumanschi Svetlana Mâsliţcaia Mihai Plasiciuc Andrei Cabac Nicolae Dabija Tudor Olaru Anton Terente Petru Caterev Ion Munteanu Semion Gurghiş Ştefan Maimescu Gheorghe Scutaru Vladimir Gudumac Serafim Urecheanu Tudor Angheli Vladimir Iuzvenco Victor Morev Vitalie Pritula Andrei Diaconu Constantin Ţurcan Fiodor Carapunarlî Constantin Capsamun Constantin Tauşanji Dumitru Puntea Ion Batcu Stepan Curoglo Grigore Bratunov Alexandru Snegur Pavel Dubălari Stepan Curtev Vasile Cojocaru Valeriu Bulgari Nadejda Brânzan Anatol Conoplin Vasile Iovv Vladimir Capanji Boris Aculov Ghimn Pologov Grigore Volovoi Mihail Catcov Larisa Pokotilova Mihai Coşcodan Gheorghe Grosu Nicolae Andronatii Nicolae Andronic Victor Arestov Vasile Baboi Semion Badrajan Pavel Bejenuţă Anatol Belitcenco Vladimir Beşleagă Tudor Bobescu Stepan Bogacenco Nicolai Bogdanov Anatoli Bolşakov Vladimir Bondarenco Ilie Bratu Petru Braşoveanu Boris Briziţchi Petru Bodorin Aleksandr Bulîcev Valentin Burduja Alexandru But Boris Carandiuc Petru Carauş Nadejda Cegurco Valdemar Cirt Valentin Cicikin Vitalie Ciorap Gheorghe Ciorba Mihail Kendighelean Gheorghe Ciobanu Ivan Chior Anatol Chişner Mihail Codin Vladlen Colesov Anatol Coleghin Victor Constantinov Ion Costaş Nicolae Costin Ilie Coşanu Dumitru Creţu Dumitru Croitor Valentin Cunev Anatol Davâdov Valeriu Daraban Vladimir Darie Chiril Darmancev Lidia Dicusar Victor Diucarev Mircea Druc Alexandru Efanov Gheorghe Efros Valeriu Egorov Vladimir Emilianov Grigore Evstratii Fiodor Evtodiev Mihai Gajiu Iurie Gherasimov Gheorghe Ghimpu Mihai Ghimpu Vitalie Glebov Vladimir Goncear Mihai Goncearenco Vasile Graf Ion Grigoraş Gheorghe Gusac Mihai Guslikov Ion Guţu Ion Hadârcă Grigore Jelihovski Vladimir Labunski Valentin Leşinski Anatol Liseţki Veaceslav Litvinenco Vladlen Lîiurov Ion Luca Petru Lupaşcu Mihai Mălai Andrei Manoilov Fiodor Marinov Valeriu Matei Emil Mazureac Ion Mereuţă Ion Miţcul Andrei Moraru Alexandru Morozov Vasile Năstase Petru Nastasiuc Tudor Negru Victor Nikulin Constantin Novoderejkin Valentin Oglindă Nicolae Oleinic Vilor Ordin Nicolae Ostapenco Tudor Panţâru Vasile Pasaniuc Piotr Pascari Ion Pădureţ Ion Pălăncica Boris Pălărie Dumitru Pălărie Mihai Pătraş Eugen Pâslaru Sava Platon Anatol Plugaru Valentina Podgornaia Petru Poian Mihai Popovici Anatol Popuşoi Veniamin Potaşev Evgheni Puşneac Alexandra Raiu Vladimir Rîleakov Nicolai Riumin Andrei Rusnac Mircea Rusu Andrei Safonov Vasile Sajin Anatol Salamandîk Petru Sandulachi Ludmila Silicenko Anatol Simac Igor Smirnov Mircea Snegur Mihai Şabarcin Vasile Şoimaru Constantin Tampiza Ion Tăbâică Dumitru Todoroi Stepan Topal Anatol Ţăranu Pavel Ţîmai Ivan Ţînnik Tudor Ţopa Anatol Ţurcanu Leonid Ţurcan Anatol Ţurcanu Ion Ţurcanu Victor Uncuţă Ion Ungureanu Vasile Ursu Andrei Vartic Ignat Vasilachi Ion Vatamanu Vasile Vatamanu Vasile Vodă Piotr Volkov Anna Volkova Mihai Volontir Mihai Voloşin Piotr Zalojkov Oleg Zapoliski Iuri Zinoviev Fiodor Zlatov Vitali Znagovan

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