Rosalia Ludvigovna Spirer (room Etti-Rosa Spirer – Etty-Rosa Spirer; April 16, 1900, Galati, Romania – March 30, 1990, Chisinau, Moldavian SSR) – Moldavian (Romanian and Soviet) architect.
Biography
Etty-Rosa Spirer was born in Galati to a Jewish family with six children (one of whom died as a child). The older children were born in the village of Ivesti, but between 1890 and 1892 the family moved to Galati. Her father Leiser Spirer (1860-1926) was the estate manager; mother – Betty Gelbert (1861-1926) – was a housewife.
In 1925 she graduated from the Higher School of Architecture in Bucharest. From 1932 she worked in Balti, where she completed a number of projects. In 1934, she supervised the project of expanding and rebuilding the House of the Bodescu landowner for the county prefecture, to which the second floor was added (later it housed the city house of pioneers, then the wedding palace). During this period, she designed the buildings of Ion Creanga’s lyceums for boys and Princess Ilyana for girls in a modernist style (1938, now the rector’s office of the Alecu Russo University of Balti), as well as an industrial lyceum for girls (Liceul industrial de fete), houses at 79 Stefan Chel Mare Street and 26 Khotinskaya Street, of the city municipality (mayor’s office, now the store “Bălţeanca”), of the estate of the landowner Markarov.
During the Great Patriotic War – in evacuation in the Saratov region, then in Fergana. The Shmil (Samuel-Joseph) Spirer (1890-1942) tried to evacuate from Bucharest on the Struma passenger ship carrying Jewish to Palestine, and died with his wife and son on February 24, 1942 as a result of being hit by a torpedo. From 1944 she lived in Chisinau. Here she carried out a project for the restoration of the Zhdanov Library (the former hotel „Swiss”, now the municipal library named after B. P. Khashdeu, 1946); reconstruction of the buildings of the former Treasury Chamber on Mogilevskaya Street (later Berzarin), the Ministry of Finance at 168 Stefan Chel Mare Street (1946-1948) and the Sfatul Tarii Palace (1950); building of the Chisinau Polytechnic Institute named after S. G. Lazo.
For several decades she worked in the architectural and construction department No. 2 at the Moldgiprostroy design institute. In the early 1970s, she was engaged in the design of multi-storey monolithic buildings in sliding formwork, the first of which in Chisinau was a 9-storey residential building on Negruzzi Avenue. This house was her last project before her retirement in 1972.
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