Robert Kurtz

Robert Kurtz was born in Vladikavkaz on December 17, 1911, and graduated from the Institute of Architecture in Bucharest in 1940. He was chief architect of Chișinău from 1944 to 1951, working on the city's general plan under Aleksey Shchusev, and then chief architect of the Moldgiprostroy design institute from 1951 to 1971. He died in Chișinău on April 24, 1980.

His work in the archive belongs to the city's postwar rebuilding: Valea Morilor Park and the Cascade Stairway, both 1954, and the Hotel Chișinău. The hotel's date is uncertain. The archive gives 1959, but a Technical University paper says the project began in 1952 and was finished in 1963.