Personalities
- Alecu Donici - Poet, fabulist and translator
- David Knut (real name Fiksman) - Russian poet
- Iurie Platon - Russian painter and sculptor
- Jacobo Fijman - Argentine poet
- Meir Dizengoff - Politician and the first mayor of Tel Aviv
- Paul Goma - Writer and anticommunist militant
- Sergey Lazo - Communist militant during the civil war in Russia, Siberia and Far East Coordinator
- Sergiu Niţă - Politician and lawyer, Minister for Basarabia in 1920–1921, 1926–1927
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