Vadim Pirogan

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Vadim Pirogan
Born	(1921-06-26)June 26, 1921 Bălţi
Died	January 16, 2007(2007-01-16) (aged 85) Chişinău
Resting place	Chişinău
Alma mater	Lviv Polytechnic
Known for	Muzeul Memoriei Neamului
Spouse(s)	Veronica
Children	3
Parents	Ştefan Pirogan

Vadim Pirogan (June 28, 1921, Bălţi - January 16, 2007, Chişinău) was a Bessarabian activist and author.^[1] He was the head of the Communist Regime Victims Association and a member of the Moldovan Writers' Union.

Biography

Vadim Pirogan was born on June 28, 1921 in Bălţi. His father Ştefan Pirogan was mayor of Bălţi (1923–1934). He attended high school in Bălţi, where Eugen Coşeriu, Sergiu Grossu, Valeriu Gafencu, Ovidiu Creangă, Valentin Mândâcanu were his classmates^[2] Vadim Pirogan was arrested on June 25, 1941 and for five years, he was imprisoned at Tayshet forced labour camp.

Vadim Pirogan married to Veronica in 1952. He graduated from Lviv Polytechnic. He used to live in Lviv, but in 1989 he moved in Chişinău. Vadim Pirogan founded the Muzeul Memoriei Neamului in 2002. He was the president of the Communist Regime Victims Association (Romanian: Asociaţia Victimelor Regimului Communist si a Veteranilor de Razboi ai Armatei Romane din Republica Moldova) beginning in 1999.

Works

Vadim Pirogan, Cu gandul la tine, Basarabia mea
Vadim Pirogan, Pe drumurile pribegiei
Vadim Pirogan, Timpuri si oameni
Vadim Pirogan and Boris Movila, Destine romanesti
Vadim Pirogan, Calvarul

External links

Muzeul Memoriei Neamului website

Notes

v t e Anti-communism in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1917-1991)

Political entities	Bessarabia Bukovina Chernivtsi oblast Budjak Moldavian Democratic Republic Bessarabian Soviet Socialist Republic Moldavian ASSR Moldavian SSR

Events	Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina Răzeni Massacre 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) 1989 Moldova civil unrest

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	Cenaclul Mateevici Literatura şi Arta Mişcarea Democraticǎ Popular Front of Moldova Stephen the Great Monument Marea Adunare Naţionalǎ Fall of Communism in Moldova Glasul Deşteptarea Memorial to Victims of Stalinist Repression Monument to the Victims of the Soviet Occupation Museum of Victims of Communism Muzeul Memoriei Neamului

1988-1991, people	Nicolae Costin Nicolae Dabija Mircea Druc Gheorghe Ghimpu Ion Hadîrcǎ Dumitru Matcovschi

The political diaspora	Bessarabian and Bukovinian refugees Pro Basarabia şi Bucovina Anton Crihan Paul Goma Nicolae Lupan Grigore Singurel

See also Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova

Persondata
Name	Pirogan, Vadim
Alternative names
Short description	Bessarabian activist and author
Date of birth	June 26, 1921
Place of birth	Bălţi, Moldova
Date of death	January 16, 2007
Place of death	Chişinău, Moldova

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Vadim Pirogan

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