Monument to S.Murafa, A.Mateevici and A.Hodorogea

The Monument to Simion Murafa, Alexei Mateevici and Andrei Hodorogea was a monument opened in 1933, in the park of the Nativity Cathedral in Central Chişinău that existed until 1940. The monument was dedicated to Simeon G. Murafa, Alexei Mateevici, and Andrei Hodorogea. All of them died in August 1917. On August 20, 1917 some 200 Russian soldiers, with Bolshevist leaders, seized and murdered two of the most importants Moldavian leaders, Andrei Hodorogea and Simeon G. Murafa, in Chişinău. On July 17, 1917 Alexei Mateevici wrote the poem “Limba noastră” (in English “Our Language”. He died of epidemic typhus a month later. The monument was destroyed after the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in 1940. In 1994, "Limba noastră" became the anthem of the Republic of Moldova. In 2007, the youth organisation of the Liberal Party asked the municipal council of Chisinau to re-erect the monument and in 2013, historian and investigator Iurie Colesnic headed an initiative for the reconstruction of the monument. An exact copy of the monument was created by architect Eugen Bâzgu and folk artist Veaceslav Lozan and placed in the same spot where the original monument had stood. The monument was inaugurated On 29 September 2016. These photos were taken in April 2026 and show a selection of views of the monument.