Andrei Găină was born in 1885 in the village of Chiţcanii Vechi. He was a farmer. He was a soldier in the
Tzarist Army on the fronts of the
First World War. Then he was the mayor of Chițcanii Vechi in the years immediately following the
Union of 1918. Having no children adopted two girls: • Raisa Lentovschi, a refugee
Russia who graduated from the Faculty of Philology at
Iasi, was then a teacher of
French and
Romanian at Chiţcanii Vechi until 28 June 1940 and after 22 June 1941. He died during childbirth in 1942. She is buried at the village cemetery. In marriage he had the family name Marandici. • Iulia Coman (born Șova), the biological daughter of Xenofont Șova, deported in 1940 to
Siberia. She has fled with her biological mother in
Romania in 1940 and 1944. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology. Teacher of French in
Buzau. Currently she is at pension age. He was a member of the Central Committee of Moldovan soldiers in
Chișinau. At the Congress of the Moldavian Soldiers on 20–27 August 1917 in
Chișinau, he was elected deputy in the
Sfatul Țării from
Orhei County. In the interwar years, after the agrarian reform of 1922, it possessed 50 ha of agrarian land. Andrei Găină died in January 1940. He is buried in the courtyard of the village church. He built the new church in the village. He was married to Theodora. He also had a brother, Constantin (died in 1949 in Chițcanii Vechi), who had several children, now inhabitants of
Bessarabia. == Gallery ==