SOȚII RUŞCINSCHI: INTELECTUALI ROMÂNI SUB REGIM SOVIETIC

Summary. The article presents the biographies of a couple of Romanian families and intellectuals from the interwar period who ended up being active including under the Soviet regime, with the surname Ruscinschi and the first names Alexandr and Raisa. Through the study of Raisa’s Soviet files, the professional evolution of both husbands was analysed, the first former teacher in the Romanian period on entomological subjects at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in Chisinau, insect collector, then for a single year he was a Soviet teacher at the Agricultural Institute of the Moldavian RSS. In 1941 he was evacuated to the Russian Federation, mobilized for the war and died as a soldier in the Red Army. After returning from evacuation to Moldova, Raisa became a librarian in two institutions, the Agricultural Institute in Chisinau (1944–1947) and the Academy of Sciences of the Moldavian SSR (1947–1967), retiring according to age with appreciation for her quality and long activity duration.Key words: Biographies, Ruscinski, Alexandr – entomologist, Raisa – librarian, Romania, Moldavian SSR.