Chișinău railway station
railway station in Chișinău, Moldova
Chișinău railway station (Romanian: Gara feroviară din Chișinău) is the main railway station serving Chișinău, Moldova. It is located at 1 Aleea Garii, not far from the centre of the city.
History
The Railway Station, or the Old Railway Station in Chișinău, was designed between 1880 and 1890 by Heinrich von Lonsky, with the construction led by architect Alexandru Bernadazzi, in the context of the development of the railway network in the Russian Empire. The first railway line connecting Chișinău with Tiraspol was inaugurated in 1871, marking the beginning of rail transport in Bessarabia. The station was designed to support economic development and the transportation of agricultural goods from the region to markets in Eastern Europe and Russia. The station was destroyed during World War II, subjected to bombings in 1941 and 1944. It was redesigned, and the current station no longer resembles the old one.
In 1918, the railway was heavily used by members of the Sfatul Țării, particularly for connections to Iași, where the Romanian Government and the Royal House had been evacuated from Bucharest following the German occupation. It was also used by members of the first Bessarabian parliament who were mobilized in the Russian army and fought on the Romanian front.
On January 6, 1918, the Bolshevik Front Section arrested a detachment of soldiers from Transylvania at the Chișinău station, who, according to a preliminary agreement, had arrived from Kiev under the orders of the Sfatul Țării.
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