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Bogdan Istru

Died in 1993

Bogdan Istru, whose real name was Ion Bădărău, was born on 13 April 1914 in Pistruieni, in Bessarabia. After graduating in 1931 from the Vasile Lupu teacher training college in Iași, he was a schoolteacher and from 1932 published in the newspaper Cuvânt moldovenesc songs, anecdotes and riddles collected in the villages. A member of the Communist Party in 1947, he celebrated the Volga-Don canal and socialist Moldavia. State Prize winner in 1976 and corresponding member of the Moldavian Academy of Sciences in 1984, he died in Chișinău on 25 March 1993.

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