Iachim Grosul

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Iachim Grosul (name also rendered as Yakim Grosul) (1912 - 1976) was a Moldovan scientist, and the first president of the Academy of Science of the Moldavian SSR in the Soviet Union.

He was born in the village of Cărăgaş, Slobozia county. In 1937, he graduated the Pedagogic Institute in Tiraspol. After this, he worked at the university as lecturer and dean (from 1940) at the Faculty of History. From 1947, he was vice director, and from 1954, he was president of the Moldavian base of the URSS Academy of Science. In 1961, he was elected as the first president of the Academy of Science of the MSSR (part of the USSR). He was a good organiser, scientist and historian. However, his works relating to history, were many times censured, a common practice in the marxist dogmatic Soviet Union.

In 2004, his image and name were used on a silver coin minted by Central Bank of Transnistria to honor this native of what today is Transnistria, as part of a series of memorable coins called "The Outstanding People of Pridnestrovie".[1]