Nicolae Coval

Who is Nicolae Coval?

Nicolae Coval was a Moldavian SSR politician.

Nicolae Coval was born on December 19, 1904, in Camenca, Transnistria. He died on January 15, 1970, in Chişinău.

Coval was the prime minister of Moldavian SSR. Coval was also the First Secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party.

During his rule the hunger of 1946-1947 has occurred in the Moldаvian SSR, when more than 170 thousands of people has died. The hunger had partially objective reasons, while partially was organized by Soviet Authorities, which urged the completation of Soviet grain stocks. The hunger was stopped in the autumn of 1947, after which a forced collectivisation of the agriculture in Bessarabia was ordered by Communist and Soviet authorities.