Nicolae Testemițanu

Nicolae Testemițanu OR
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Minister of Health of the Moldavian SSR
In office 4 April 1963 – 5 May 1968
Premier	Alexandru Diordiță
Preceded by	Andrei Diskalenko
Succeeded by	Ion Sorocean
Rector of the Chișinău State Institute of Medicine
In office 1959–1963
Preceded by	Nikolai Starostenko
Succeeded by	Vasile Anestiadi

Personal details
Born	(1927-08-01)1 August 1927 Ochiul Alb, Kingdom of Romania
Died	20 September 1986(1986-09-20) (aged 59) Chișinău, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party	Communist Party of Moldavia
Profession	Physician

Nicolae Testemițanu (1 August 1927 – 20 September 1986) was a Moldovan and Soviet surgeon, hygienist, and politician.

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.^[1]

^ Dumitrascu, Dan L.; Shampo, Marc; Kyle, Robert A.; Steensma, David P. (2014-12-01). "Nicolae Testemiţanu—Moldovan Surgeon, Scientist, and Politician". Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 89 (12): e131. doi:10.1016/j.mayocp.2014.02.023. ISSN 0025-6196. PMID 25468521.

v t e Anti-communism in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1940–1991)
Political entities	Moldavian Democratic Republic Moldavian ASSR Moldavian SSR Bukovina Governorate Transnistria Governorate
Events	Soviet occupation Soviet deportations Romania in World War II Fântâna Albă massacre Tatarka common graves Operation North 1989 Moldovan civil unrest Independence
Anti-Soviet organizations	Arcașii lui Ștefan Black Army Democratic Agrarian Party Freedom Party Democratic Union of Freedom Sabia Dreptății Vasile Lupu High School Group Vocea Basarabiei
Activists and dissidents	Alexandru Baltagă Filimon Bodiu Olimpiada Bodiu Gheorghe Briceag Ion Codreanu Nicolae Costin Anton Crihan Nicolae Dabija Mircea Druc Valeriu Gafencu Gheorghe Ghimpu Paul Goma Ion Hadîrcǎ Pan Halippa Eufrosinia Kersnovskaya Nicolae Lupan Dumitru Matcovschi Ion Moraru Vasile Odobescu Gherman Pântea Ion Pelivan Vadim Pirogan Isidor Sârbu Grigore Singurel Nichita Smochină Alexandru Usatiuc-Bulgăr Ion Vasilenco Victor Zâmbrea
Persecutors	NKVD KGB Militsiya Securitate Nikita Salogor Ivan Bodiul Pyotr Grigoryevich Borodin
Organisations, places, events	Literatura și Arta Popular Front of Moldova Stephen the Great Monument Glasul Deșteptarea Memorial to Victims of Stalinist Repression Monument to the Victims of the Soviet Occupation Muzeul Memoriei Neamului
See also Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova

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in chisinau there is a street in his name 'nicolaie testimitianu'.

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