Petru Pascari
OfficeChairman of the Council of Ministers of the Moldavian SSR
Term start10 January 1990
Term end26 May 1990
PredecessorIvan Calin
SuccessorMircea Druc (as Prime Minister of SSR Moldova)
Term start 224 April 1970
Term end 21 August 1976
Predecessor 2Alexandru Diordiță
Successor 2Semion Grossu
Birth date22 September 1929
Birth placeStroenți, Moldavian ASSR, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Moldova)
Death date20 November 2025 (aged 96)
Death placeMoscow, Russia
PartyCommunist Party of Moldavia1
Honorific suffixOR

Petru Pascari (Russian: Пётр Андреевич Паскарь; 22 September 1929 – 20 November 2025) was a Soviet and Moldovan politician. He was on two occasions the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Moldavian SSR: 24 April 1970 – 1 August 1976 (1st time) and 10 January 1990 – 26 May 1990 (2nd time).

Life and career

Petru Pascari was born on 22 September 1929 in the small village of Stroenți (Stroiești), in the north of Transnistria, in Rîbnița District.

From 1946 to 1949, he worked at a wine-making technical school in the village of Saharna before enrolling in the Chisinau Agricultural Institute (now State Agrarian University of Moldova). For ten years after he worked as an agronomist before becoming a minister in the cabinet. In December 1962, he became Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova. He served his first stinct as premier in April 1970, at the same time serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Moldavian SSR. In July 1976, he was appointed First Deputy Chairman of Gosplan. In early 1990, he returned to Moldova to serve as premier for a second time.[1]

In June 1990, he became a personal pensioner and lived in Moscow.[2]

Pascari died on 20 November 2025, at the age of 96.[3]

Honours and awards

References

  1. ^ "Паскарь Петр Андреевич". bse.sci-lib.com. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  2. ^ "Посольство Республики Молдова в Российской Федерации | Министерство иностранных дел и европейской интеграции Республики Молдова". rusia.mfa.gov.md. Retrieved 2023-06-05.
  3. ^ "Московские Могилы"
  4. ^ "Ordinul Republicii" (in Russian)