The Building of the Presidential Administration and the Suprem Council of Moldova, Rybnitsa

Rîbnița (in Romanian) or Rybnitsa is a city in Moldova. The city is under the administration of the breakaway government of the Transnistria. Rîbnița was founded in 1628 as a Ruthenian village Rybnytsia. As early as 1657, Rîbnița was mentioned in documents as an important town, at the time part of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1793, Rîbnița passed from Poland to Russia. On March 17, 1944, during WWII, the Nazis executed almost 400 prisoners, Soviet citizens and anti-fascist Romanians at Rîbniţa.