Petru Pascari was born on 22 September 1929 in the small village of Stroenți (
Stroiești), in the north of
Transnistria, in
Rîbnița District. From 1946 to 1949, he worked at a wine-making technical school in the village of Saharna before enrolling in the Chisinau Agricultural Institute (now
State Agrarian University of Moldova). For ten years after he worked as an agronomist before becoming a minister in the cabinet. In December 1962, he became Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova. He served his first stinct as premier in April 1970, at the same time serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Moldavian SSR. In July 1976, he was appointed First Deputy Chairman of
Gosplan. In early 1990, he returned to Moldova to serve as premier for a second time. In June 1990, he became a personal pensioner and lived in
Moscow. Pascari died on 20 November 2025, at the age of 96. == Honours and awards ==