Abstract:
The president Constantin Leancă of Zemstvei, Bălți county, is originally from Movileni village, Cuhnești commune, Bălți county (today Glodeni district) was born on 10 April 1893. In the 1915 is mobilized in the army, Russian imperian and participated in the First World War. In 1917 he is elected president of the Balți, Zemstva. On 3 March, 1918 Zemstva deputies voted for union with România. Over the years 1919-1940 he was elected deputy in the Romanian parliament 7 times. On 28 June, 1940, soviet armies occupy Bessarabia, and Constantin Leancă in arrested and sentenced to 8 years in prison. The Romanian patriot from Bălți County died in 1942, in a Soviet concentration camp, from the Gorki region, Russia. By decision of the R.S.S.M. since January 9, 1990 it has been rehabilitated. A plaque commemorating C. Leanca was erected at his birthplace.
