Andrei Hodorogea (1878, Slobozia-Hodorogea - 20 August 1917, Chişinău) was a politician from

Bessarabia Bessarabia () is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. About two thirds of Bessarabia lies within modern-day Moldova, with the Budjak region covering the southern coa ...

Biography

Andrei Hodorogea was born in 1878 in Slobozia-Hodorogea. He studied in Cucuruzeni and then in

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

and became an engineer. He advocated the national cause and in 1917 became an activist of the

National Moldavian Party The National Moldavian Party was a political party in Bessarabia. History Prior to 1917, Bessarabian intelligentsia was divided between noblemen, conservatives, democrats, and socialists. Vasile Stroescu, a rich but very modest filantrop boya ...

In the evening of 20 August 1917 some 200 Russian soldiers, with

Bolshevist The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The Bolshevik party, formally established in 19 ...

leaders, seized and murdered two of the most conspicuous Moldavian leaders, Andrei Hodorogea and Simeon G. Murafa, in Chişinău itself.

Honours

* Andrei Hodorogea Street (former Raleev Street), in

Sectorul Botanica Sectorul Botanica () is one of the five sectors in Chișinău, the capital of Moldova. Botanica is the most populous (220,000 people) and one of the more scenic districts in Chișinău; it hosts a zoo and a botanical garden. The widest boulevard ...

, Chişinău *

Monument to Simion Murafa, Alexei Mateevici and Andrei Hodorogea The Monument to Simion Murafa, Alexei Mateevici and Andrei Hodorogea () was a Capitoline Wolf statues in cities, monument in Central Chişinău, Moldova. It existed between 1933 and 1940. Overview The monument was opened in 1933, in the park o ...

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References

Bibliography

* Eremia, Anatol (2001). Unitatea patrimoniului onomastic românesc. Toponimie. Antroponimie (ed. ediție jubiliară). Chișinău: Centrul Național de Terminologie, ed. „Iulian”. p. 62. .

External links

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Declaraţie privind restabilirea monumentului înălţat în grădina Catedralei în memoria eroilor naţionali: Simion Murafa, Alexei Mateevici şi Andrei Hodorogea
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hodorogea, Andrei Romanian people of Moldovan descent 1878 births 1917 deaths People from Orhei District Moldovan journalists Male journalists Moldovan writers Moldovan male writers Moldovan engineers People murdered in Russia People from the Russian Empire