Vadim Pirogan was born on 28 June 1921 in
Bălţi. His father
Ştefan Pirogan was
mayor of Bălţi in 1923–1934. He attended
high school there, having
Eugen Coşeriu,
Sergiu Grossu,
Valeriu Gafencu,
Ovidiu Creangă, and
Valentin Mândâcanu as his classmates Vadim Pirogan was arrested by the Soviet authorities on 25 June 1941 and for five years, he was imprisoned in Siberia in the
Tayshet forced labour camp. Vadim Pirogan married Veronica in 1952. He graduated from
Lviv Polytechnic. He lived in
Lviv until 1989, when he moved to
Chişinău. In 2002 he founded there the
Muzeul Memoriei Neamului, 'The Museum of National Remembrance'. He was the president of the Communist Regime Victims Association () beginning in 1999. == Works ==