Nicolae Testemiţanu

Nicolae Testemiţanu
Health Minister of Moldova
In office
1963–1968
Prime Minister Alexandru Diordiţă
Personal details
Born August 1, 1927(1927-08-01)
Ochiul Alb, Drochia district
Died September 20, 1986(1986-09-20) (aged 59)
Chişinău
Political party Communist Party of Moldova
Profession physician
Religion Eastern Orthodoxy

Nicolae Testemiţanu (1 August 1927 Ochiul Alb, Drochia district – September 20, 1986) was a Moldovan scientist, surgeon, hygienist, and politician.

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Political career

He served as minister of health of Moldavian SSR between 1963 and 1968, after which he was demoted for allegedly promoting too many autochthonous medical personnel, contrary to Soviet Russification policies.

Honours

The Nicolae Testemiţanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Chişinău is named after him.

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Anti-communism in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1917-1991)
Political entities
Events
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact‎ • Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina • Romania during World War II • Political prisoners in Soviet Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina • Fântâna Albă massacre • Tatarka common graves • Deportation of Romanians in the Soviet Union • 13 June 1941 deportation • Operation Yug • Operation North • Bălţi POW camp • Moldavian famine (1946-1947)
Anti-Soviet organizations
Arcaşii lui Ştefan • Bessarabian Revolutionaries Organization • Black Army • Democratic Agrarian Party • Freedom Party • Democratic Union of Freedom • Mişcarea Nordică • National Patriotic Front • Pământenirea • Sabia Dreptăţii • "Vasile Lupu" High School Group • Vocea Basarabiei
Prisoners and dissidents
Victor Andreev • Alexandru Baltagă • Vladimir Bivol • Filimon Bodiu • Olimpiada Bodiu • Gheorghe Briceag • Constantin Condrat • Dumitru Crihan • Ion Codreanu • Alexandru Duca • Gheorghe Ghimpu • Valeriu Graur • Tudor Goncearencu • Pan Halippa • Ion Istrati • Nicole Istrati • Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya • Ion Moraru • Mihai Moraru • Mihai Moroşanu • Vasile Odobescu • Ion Pelivan • Vadim Pirogan • Andrei Sănduţă • Isidor Sârbu • Andrei Stoica • Alexandru Şoltoianu • Ilarion Tǎutu • Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgǎr • Ion Vasilenco • Vasile Vâlcu • Victor Zâmbrea
Passive dissidentism
Loghin Alexeev • Nicolae Anestiade • Vsevolod Anghel • Cemârtan • Corlǎteanu • Ion Druţǎ • Iordache Ionescu • Serafim Saka • Nicolae Testemiţanu • Vasile Vasilache • Grigore Vieru
Persecutors
NKVD • KGB • Securitate • 237th NKVD Regiment • 13th NKVD Division
Organisations, places, events
1988-1991, people
The political diaspora
Bessarabian and Bukovinian refugees • Pro Basarabia şi Bucovina • Anton Crihan • Paul Goma • Nicolae Lupan • Grigore Singurel