Onești

File:Ansamblu urban, centrul comercial al orașului – Blocuri de locuit, vedere de ansamblu.jpg

The locality was documentary attested as a village on 14 December 1458. In 1952, the communist authorities decided to build a large petrochemical industrial platform (Borzești Petrochemical Plant) and a new related city in the area of Onești and Borzești villages. Borzești, according to legend, was the birthplace of Stephen III of Moldavia. It is the site of the Borzești Church, which was built on his orders in 1493–1494.{{Cite book|title=Monografia Municipiului Onești – în date și evenimente|last=Rozalia & Teodor Verde|date=July 2003|location=Onești|pages=12}}

At the death of the Communist leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej in March 1965, Onești was renamed Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, but the name was changed back in 1990{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Onesti|title=Onești {{!}} Romania|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-04-25}} shortly after the Romanian Revolution.

Above the borough Malu, on the right-hand side of the river Cașin, were discovered archaeological fragments from a settlement dating from the Neolithic.

Onești is located in the Tazlău-Cașin Depression of the Eastern Carpathians at an average altitude of {{convert|210|m|ft}}.{{cite web|url=https://bacau.insse.ro/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Anuar2019.pdf|title=Anuarul statistic al județului Bacău|date=2019|page=27|publisher=INSSE}} It lies at the confluence of the rivers Trotuș, Cașin, Oituz, and Tazlău, some {{convert|60|km|mi|abbr=on}} southwest of the county capital, Bacău. The city is crossed by the European road E574 and by the national roads DN11A and DN12A that connect it to Bucharest, to the northern part of the country, and to Transylvania. Rail connections are made through the Căile Ferate Române network, and the proposed A13 Brașov–Bacău Motorway will link the city to the rest of Romania's highway network as a second connection to the country's major cities.

{{Historical populations

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|1930 |3828

|1956 |11253

|1966 |35663

|1977 |41738

|1992 |58810

|2002 |51681

|2011 |39172

|2021 |34005

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At the 2011 census, Onești had 39,172 inhabitants, of which 90.29% were Romanians, 1.39% Roma, 0.53% Hungarians, and 0.13% Greeks. At the 2021 census, the city had a population of 34,005; of those, 79.75% were Romanians, and for 19.77% the ethnicity was not known.{{cite web|url=https://www.recensamantromania.ro/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Tabel-1.03_1.3.1-si-1.03.2.xls|title=Populația rezidentă după grupa de vârstă, pe județe și municipii, orașe, comune, la 1 decembrie 2021|publisher=INSSE|language=ro|date=31 May 2023}}

Borzești is a neighborhood in the southeast of Onești, under separate administration until 1968.{{Cite book|title=Monografia Municipiului Onești – în date și evenimente|last=Rozalia & Teodor Verde|date=July 2003|location=Onești|pages=51}} The Borzești Petrochemical Plant is located there.{{Cite book|title=Orașele Trotușene – Studiu de geografie umană II|last=Ioan Șandru, Constantin V. Toma, Nicu Aur|publisher=Întreprinderea Poligrafică Bacău|year=1989|location=Bacău|pages=190}}{{Cite book|title=Județele Patriei – Județul Bacău|last=Pintilie|first=Rusu|publisher=Sport-Turism București|year=1980|pages=158}}

File:Rafinaria Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.jpg|No. 10 Oil Refinery (RAFO Onești) in 1968

File:Combinatul Chimic Borzesti.jpg|Borzești Chemical Plant (Chimcomplex) in the 1960s

File:Combinatul de cauciuc sintetic si produse petrochimice Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (Onesti).jpg|Synthetic Rubber Plant (Carom Onești)

File:Termocentrala Borzesti exterior.jpg|Borzești Power Station

File:Hotelul Trotus Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (Onesti).jpg|Hotel Trotuș in the 1980s

File:Mercur street, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.jpg|City in the 1970s

Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of the city, whose inhabitants are predominantly Romanian Orthodox. St. Nicholas Day, 6 December, is the municipal day of Onești.{{fact|date=July 2024}}

Popular tourist attractions are Perchiu Hill and the Hero Cross from atop the aforementioned hill, the Municipal History Museum, a steel monument dedicated to the Romanian national poet Mihai Eminescu, and the city park.{{fact|date=July 2024}}

• {{ill|Emil Lemnaru|ro}} (PSD), 1996–2012
• Victor-Laurențiu Neghină (PSD), 2012–2015
• Alexandru Cristea (UNPR), 2015–2016
• Nicolae Gnatiuc (PSD), 2016–2020
• Victor-Laurențiu Neghină (PMP), 2020–2024

• Antonio Andrușceac (born 1967), politician
• Mihail Aslan (1857–1936), general in World War I
• Gabriel Bruchental (born 1965), footballer
• Diana Chelaru (born 1993), gymnast
• Nadia Comăneci (born 1961), gymnast
• Daniel Dines (born 1972), entrepreneur
• Teodora Enache (born 1967), jazz singer
• Georgeta Gabor (born 1962), gymnast
• Loredana Groza (born 1970), singer
• Ștefania Jipa (born 2000), handball player
• Gheorghe Maftei (born 1955), weightlifter
• Laura Moise (born 1976), judoka
• Daniel Munteanu (born 1978), football player and manager
• Alexandru Nazare (born 1980), politician
• Ana Maria Pavăl (born 1983), wrestler
• Adrian Rotaru (born 1994), handballer
• Eduard Tismănaru (born 1987), footballer
• Dumitrița Turner (born 1964), artistic gymnast
• Silvia Zarzu (born 1998), artistic gymnast

• {{flagicon|Moldova}} Strășeni, Moldova (2015){{Cite web|url=https://www.timpul.md/articol/municipiul-oneti-s-a-infrait-cu-oraul-streeni-din-republica-moldova-78365.html|title=Municipiul Onești s-a înfrățit cu orașul Streșeni din Republica Moldova|date=2015-08-23|website=Timpul|language=ro|access-date=2020-02-06}}
• {{flagicon|Norway}} Skien, Norway
• {{flagicon|France}} Eysines, France

• CSM Borzești
• FCM Dinamo Onești

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Category:Localities in Western Moldavia