Valentin Mednek

Valentin Mednek was born in Comrat on June 1, 1910, and studied architecture at the Brno polytechnic from 1929 until 1932, when he was expelled from Czechoslovakia for communist ties. In 1947–49 he worked in Aleksey Shchusev's group on the reconstruction plan for Chișinău.

From 1950 he was chief architect of Bender (Bendery). Several of his buildings there carry mosaics by Mikhail Burya and Vladislav Obukh, among them the Tkachenko House of Culture and the bus station, designed with A. P. Moghilevski. He was an Honored Art Worker of the MSSR and became an honorary citizen of Bender in 2003. He died in 2008.