David Palatnik

David Palatnik was born in Balta on November 1, 1913, trained in Odesa and worked in Chișinău from 1940. From 1955 to 1993 he headed a department at the Moldgiprostroy design institute, and he was named Honored Architect of the MSSR in 1985.

He designed schools, kindergartens and maternity hospitals using Moldovan folk forms and local limestone, and worked with Robert Kurtz on the central park, now Valea Morilor (1954). He died in Chișinău in 1998.