Folklorist Paul Chior: biography pages

The article presents the biography of the folklorist Pavel Chior, the chief architect of the new Soviet Moldovan culture in the interwar years. He was one of the party and state leaders in of the Moldovan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic: secretary of the Komsomol of the Autonomous Republic, editor of the republican newspaper “Plugarul Rosu” (“The red ploughman”), People’s Commissar of Education of the MASSR, head of the Moldovan Scientific Committee, precursor of the Moldovan Academy of Sciences, one of the founders of the Writers’ Union of the Moldovan ASSR. Pavel Chior devoted great attention to folk art. He published a number of scientific works that have maintained their significance to this day: Zicători moldoveneşti, (Moldovan proverbs), Cîntece moldoveneşti norodnice (Moldovan folk songs), etc. This article is written on the basis of previously published scientific papers. New archival materials are also used.