Semion Grossu

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Semion Grossu

| image = Semion Grossu.jpg

| imagesize =

| office = First Secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party

| primeminister =

| term_start = 30 December 1980

| term_end = 16 November 1989

| predecessor = Ivan Bodiul

| successor = Petru Lucinschi

| office2 = Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Moldavian SSR

| term_start2 = 1 August 1976

| term_end2 = 30 December 1980

| predecessor2 = Petru Pascari

| successor2 = Ion Ustian

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1934|03|18|df=y}}

| birth_place = Satu-Nou, Kingdom of Romania

| death_date =

| death_place =

| party = Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1961–1991)

| premier = Ion Ustian
Ivan Calin

| caption = Grossu in 1979

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Semion Grossu (born 18 March 1934) is a Moldovan politician and businessman.

Biography

Grossu was born on 18 March 1934 in the commune of Satu-Nou, Cetatea Albă County, Kingdom of Romania (nowadays Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion, Ukraine). In 1961, he joined the Communist Party of Moldavia.

Grossu was the chairman of government of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (1 August 1976 – 30 December 1980) and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Moldovan SSR (1 September 1976 – 31 December 1980). He later became First Secretary of the Communist Party of Moldavia (30 December 1980 – 16 November 1989). He was the final Moldavian SSR leader to espouse the Soviet party line; his successor, Petru Lucinschi, was identified with aspirations for Moldovan independence, which was finally achieved in 1991.

Although being the first Soviet leader of Moldova to be fluent in Romanian, Grossu preferred to speak Russian in public during his tenures.Igor CAȘU, "Patterns of succession : Top party elite recruitment in Soviet Moldavia and centre-periphery relations, 1940–1991", in Li BENNICH-BJÖRKMAN and Saulius GRYBKAUSKAS (dir.), Moscow and the non-Russian Republics in the Soviet Union : nomenklatura, intelligentsia and centre-periphery relations, London, Routledge, 2022, p. 84.

Since 1991, Semion Grossu has been the chairman of the Russo–Moldovan winemaking firm, Product Impex SRL. In a video posted on YouTube in 2009, filmed by the Moldovan news source Internet TV, Grossu said he did not consider himself a public figure.

References

*** – Enciclopedia sovietică moldovenească (Chişinău, 1970–1977)

External links

[http://www.az-libr.ru/Persons/3GEHHL/d8e0c511/d8e0c511.shtml Гроссу Семен Кузьмич]{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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Category:1934 births

Category:Living people

Category:People from Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion

Category:Members of the Central Committee of the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union