Kishinev

Kishinev is the capital of the Republic of Moldova, its administrative, scientifically, cultural and industrial centre.

 Sights to see include: Blagoveshchenskaya church, Saint Gates Arch, Alexandr Pushkin Museum, The Museum of Ethnography and National History, and the A.P. Chekhov Russian Drama Theater.

In the economical aspect Kishinev is the largest and the most developed city of the country. Its industry has more than 34 500 legal entities, the enterprises of mechanical, apparatus, engineering, electronics, jewelry, light, and food industries, woodworking industry and production of furniture, processing of natural leather and production of artificial leather, printing industry.

Dozens of large enterprises were converted into limited companies. After the privatization the state enterprises only constitute 5,9 percent of their whole quantity.

Foreign investments, creation of free enterprise zones, application of the up-to-date technologies contribute to support of competitiveness level of our goods in the international market.

Nowadays the goods produced in Moldova are bought by more than 80 countries of the world. By the way, in addition to the wines, produced in Kishinev and Cricova and recognized all over the world and our preserved food of vegetables and fruits, the high mark has also been given to vacuum pumps, tractors, TV sets, washing machines, carpets, hosiery articles, sweets, cosmetics and perfume, volatile oils, clothes as well as the wide assortment of the meat and dairy products.