Central Market - Balti

Among the black-and-white negatives in the collection of Belts' oldest photojournalist, Georgy Raylan, we found several films depicting the construction of a covered market near the Detsky Mir store in the 1960s. The central market has existed for over 100 years. As SP has already written, the market in the central part of the city has appeared in documents since the days of tsarist Russia, although it was not the oldest in Bălți. Food was also sold there during the Romanian period and then during the Soviet era. In the 1960s, the city executive committee, the then equivalent of the mayor's office, began to reorganize the city center, deciding to build a covered market (then called a collective farm market). The complex was opened in November 1967, on the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)