Rail[edit]

The second most popular form of domestic transportation within Moldova is via railways. The total
length of the network managed by Moldovan Railway CFM (as of 2009) is 1,232 kilometres (766
miles). The entire network is single track and is not electrified. The central hub of all railways
is Chișinău Central Railway Station. There is another smaller railway station – Revaca located on
the city's ends.
Chișinău Railway Station has an international railway terminal with connections
to Bucharest, Kyiv, Minsk, Odessa, Moscow, Samara, Varna and St. Petersburg. Due to the
simmering conflict between Moldova and the unrecognised Transnistria republic the rail traffic
towards Ukraine is occasionally stopped. [citation needed]

Public transport[edit]
Trolleybuses[edit]
See also: Trolleybuses in Chișinău
There is wide trolleybus network operating as common public transportation within city. From 1994,
Chișinău saw the establishment of new trolleybus lines, as well as an increase in capacity of existing
lines, to improve connections between the urban districts. The network comprises 22 trolleybus lines
being 246 km (153 mi) in length. Trolleybuses run between 05:00 and 03:00. There are 320 units
daily operating in Chișinău. However the requirements are as minimum as 600 units. [clarification
needed]
 Trolleybus ticket costs at about 2 lei (ca. $0.11). It is the cheapest method of transport within
Chișinău municipality.
Buses[edit]
There are 29 lines of buses within Chișinău municipality. At each public transportation stops there is
attached a schedule for buses and trolleybuses. There are approximately 330 public transportation
stops within Chișinău municipality. There is a big lack of buses inside city limits, with only 115 buses
operating within Chișinău.[50]
Minibuses[edit]
In Chișinău and its suburbs, privately operated minibuses known as "rutieras" generally follow the
major bus and trolleybus routes and appear more frequently.[51]
As of October 2017, there are 1,100 units of minibuses operating within Chișinău. Minibuses
services are priced the same as buses – 3 lei for a ticket (ca. $0.18).[52]

Traffic[edit]
The city traffic becomes more congested as each year passes. Nowadays there are about 300,000
cars in the city plus 100,000 transit transports coming to the city each day. [citation needed] The number of
personal transports is expected to reach 550,000 (without transit) by 2025. [citation needed]

Sport[edit]

FC Zimbru Stadium

There are three professional football clubs in Chișinău: Zimbru and Academia of the Moldovan

National Division (first level), and Real Succes of the Moldovan "A" Division (second level). Of the
larger public multi-use stadiums in the city is the Stadionul Dinamo (Dinamo Stadium), which has a
capacity of 2,692. The Zimbru Stadium, opened in May 2006 with a capacity of 10,500 sitting places,
meets all the requirements for holding official international matches, and was the venue for
all Moldova's Euro 2008 qualifying games. There are discussions to build a new olympic stadium
with capacity of circa 25,000 seats, that would meet all international requirements. Since 2011 CS
Femina-Sport Chișinău has organised women's competitions in seven sports.

Notable people[edit]
Natives[edit]
 Olga Bancic, known for her role in the French Resistance during World War II
 Petru Cazacu, Prime Minister of the Moldavian Democratic Republic in 1918
 Maria Cebotari, Romanian soprano and actress, one of Europe's greatest opera stars in the
1930s and 1940s
 Toma Ciorbă, Romanian physician and hospital director
 Ion Cuțelaba, UFC light heavyweight fighter
 William F. Friedman, American cryptologist
 Dennis Gaitsgory, professor of mathematics at Harvard University
 Natalia Gheorghiu, pediatric surgeon and professor
 Sarah Gorby, French-Jewish singer
 Anatole Jakovsky, French art critic
 Boris Katz, computer scientist at MIT
 Nathaniel Kleitman, American physiologist
 Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli politician
 Grigory Lvovsky, composer
 Boris Mints, Russian billionaire
 Lewis Milestone, American motion picture director
 Sacha Moldovan, American expressionist and post-impressionist painter
 Ilya Oleynikov, comic actor and television personality
 Nina Pekerman, Israeli triathlete
 Lev Pisarzhevsky, Soviet chemist
 Andrew Rayel, stage name of Andrei Rață, a Moldovan DJ
 Yulia Sister, Israeli chemist
 Alexander Ulanovsky, the chief illegal "rezident" for Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU), prisoner
in the Soviet Gulag
 Maria Winetzkaja, American opera singer in the 1910s–1920s
 Iona Yakir, Red Army commander executed during the Great Purge
 Chaim Yassky, Jewish physician killed in the Hadassah medical convoy massacre
 Sam Zemurray, American businessman who made his fortune in the banana trade
 Sergey Spivak, Moldovan Heavyweight UFC fighter
 Rusanda Panfili, Classical violinist & composer