Basarabeasca
Basarabeasca (Romanian )
Бессарабка ( in Russian)
Basarabeasca (Russian Bessarabka / Бессарабка - to 1957 Romanowka / Романовка ) is located directly on the border with Ukraine, about 100 kilometers south of the capital Chişinău, a town on the river Cogâlnic in Moldova.
The city is the capital of Moldova Rajons Basarabeasca and is a local center of the region.
History
The village was founded in 1846 as a Jewish colony in Bessarabia, then part of the Russian Empire, under the original name Romanowka ( Романовка ) in honor of the Russian Tsar Romanov dynasty. 1859 lived in the village of 86 Jewish families who farmed 1750 acres of farmland. After the abolition of the Jewish land ownership in 1866, many farmers lost their livelihoods, some turned to the wine cultivation, trade and craft. To alleviate the great need, a weekly market was introduced in 1876. 1897, the place had 1625 inhabitants of which 71 % were Jews, the rest was divided into Russians, Romanians and German. Already in 1877 a railway station on the railway Bender Galaţi was opened east of the village, this was called Bessarabka (similar to the situation in Bessarabia ).
1910 received the first houses of the village a phone line, on December 5, 1912, a new synagogue was consecrated in 1913, the place had already 1741 inhabitants. After the end of the First World War the place as quite Bessarabia came to the Kingdom of Romania and received the romanized name romanesti. In 1923 there were 690 houses in the village in which 1520 men and 1597 women live. Still under Russian rule the rail connection to Akkerman (now Bilhorod - Dnistrovskyi ) was built in 1916, and since 1997 this route, however, is interrupted again. In 1940 came the annexation of Bessarabia by the Soviet Union, but the area was reconquered in 1941 by Greater Romania again. 1944, finally fell to the Soviet Union and became part of the Moldavian SSR.
On September 11, 1957 Romanowka was renamed Bessarabka, since 1990, the place is a part of present-day Moldova.
The largest employer in the town are the Moldovan railways, which have a regional railroad depot with a large workshop in the village.