Iosif Eltman

Iosif Simonovich Eltman was born on October 24, 1921, in Odesa and died in Ashdod, Israel. Sources give the year of his death as 2001 or 1996. A veteran of the Second World War, he trained at the Odesa Civil Engineering Institute and came to Chișinău (Kishinev) in 1949. He worked at the Moldgiprostroy design institute until 1952 and then at the state construction committee of the MSSR.

He designed war memorials in Ungheni, Glodeni, Pîrlița and Căușeni, and the 1969 Lenin monument in Ungheni with the sculptor Iosif Poniatowski. He co-wrote both editions of Architecture of Soviet Moldavia (Архитектура Советской Молдавии, 1973 and 1987). In 1975 he shared a USSR Council of Ministers Prize for the planning and construction of the village of Romanești.