Dubăsarii Vechi is a commune in Criuleni district, Moldova

Moldova

Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...

. It is composed of a single village, Dubăsarii Vechi.

History

In 1908, Nicolae Donici

Nicolae Donici

Nicolae Donici was a Romanian astronomer born in Bessarabia. Nicolae Donici was born into an old family of Romanian nobles from Bessarabia in the Petricani region of Chişinău. He graduated from the University in Odessa...

 established a private astronomical observatory in his village of Dubăsarii Vechi. The astronomical observatory in Dubăsarii Vechi directed by Donici enjoyed a number of astronomers from everywhere: the German: Emanuel von der Pahlen

Emanuel von der Pahlen

Baron Emanuel A. von der Pahlen was a German astronomer.He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, but left for Germanyfollowing the revolution of 1917. He was...

, the Russian emigrants: Lev Ocoulitch and Andrei Baikov.

External links

• Vocea Basarabiei
  Vocea Basarabiei
  Vocea Basarabiei is a Romanian language radio station in Moldova.- History :Vocea Basarabiei was launched on June 18, 2000, in Nisporeni. The Audiovisual Coordinating Council refused in 2002 and 2003 to register Vocea Basarabiei...
  
  , Satul Dubăsari Vechi a eternizat numele a două personalităţi ştiinţifice
• EUROPA stamps from Moldova, Hungary and Germany