2025 Tiraspol Travel Guide: Must-see attractions, popular food, hotels, transportation routes (updated in May)
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A Non-existent "Country" | The World's Last Soviet
When visiting Moldova, you must also visit Transnistria
This is a "country" not widely recognized
Full name👉Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
Also the world's last Soviet state
Soviet-style architecture everywhere, time seems frozen here
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Depart from the bus station in Chisinau, Moldova's capital
Take a minibus for about 2h to the Green Market in Tiraspol
🎫56 lei
Midway to Transnistria, you'll stop to receive an entry paper, keep it safe~
For day trips, they give you 12h to visit
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We left late, arriving after 3pm
Played until after 6pm to return. Normally, you can flag down return minibuses directly across from Green Market (look for Chisinau signs)
But locals directed us to go to Bender for transport
Worried about missing the last bus, we took route 20 to Bender Bus Station, where tickets cost 🎫60 lei
💡The last bus back is around 7pm, keep track of time
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✨Tiraspol day trip
📍Catherine the Great Monument
Right outside Green Market is the park
Walking forward you'll find the Suvorov Monument
At the end is the Dniester River with beautiful scenery
📍Lenin Monument
Walking along 25th October Street, you'll soon reach Lenin's statue
Behind it is City Hall, where they checked our permits at the entrance
They just registered us, nothing happened...
📍Dom Knigi
Continue your citywalk to this bookstore where you can buy postcards
(Next door is a bank where you can exchange for local currency)
To mail postcards, walk two blocks to the post office Poşta Centrală
📍"Back in the USSR" Restaurant
After mailing postcards, perfect timing to eat at this Soviet-themed restaurant
Such a retro atmosphere! And very enthusiastic servers~
The seafood pasta and local sour cabbage soup were both delicious!
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Half a day is enough to explore Tiraspol
If you have time, visit Tighina Fortress🏰 in Bender
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A brief day trip
With a surreal time-travel feeling
Soviet traces are everywhere in Transnistria
25th October Street, Lenin statues, Soviet-themed restaurants...
Many locals still hold Soviet passports
Surrealist Soviet dreamcore materialized...
Times change rapidly
But some people remain forever in 1992
The Culinary Cruise
A Journey Back in Time
When visiting Transnistria and it’s main city Tiraspol, it really does feel like going back in time to the Soviet era in many ways. There are statues to Lenin and Soviet iconography dotted throughout the city and region. It really is a fascinating place. While in Tiraspol make sure you visit one of the Soviet themed restaurants for a really memorable experience. To get to Tiraspol there are regular bus services from Chisinau, make sure you visit Bendery Castle on the way!
#getgoing2025 #tiraspol #transnistria #moldova
Matt’s Travels
Tiraspol: A Soviet-Style Time Capsule in Modern Moldova
Tiraspol, Moldova's capital of the breakaway Transnistria region, offers a unique blend of Soviet-era nostalgia and intriguing history. Wander through its broad avenues, visit the imposing House of Soviets, and explore Lenin monuments that echo a bygone era. The city’s quirky, isolated charm and mix of cultures provide a fascinating glimpse into a less-traveled part of Europe.#Tiraspol #moldova #transnistria #Lenin #soviet #100waysoftravel
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Tiraspol, a trip to Soviet Union
Tiraspol, the capital city of Transnitria, technically in Moldova, is one of the greatest places I have ever visited. If you would like to get some Soviet Union time vibes, that is definitely the place to go. Take the train to Odesa, from Chisinau, and enjoy your stay! There are several buses or vans for coming back to Chisinau, recomended 100% #soviet #triplocal #moldova #transnitria
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De Zuo, the living fossil of the former Soviet Union
full name is the Moldavia Soviet Socialist Republic along the Transnistre River
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[Traveling around Eastern Europe] The country that does not exist - Germany left
Since the Soviet Union immigrated a large number of Russians to the left bank of the Dniester River in Moldova, the ideology of this region is closer to the Soviet Union, so independent in Moldova Later, the region announced its independence from Moldova and established the Moldavia Republic along the Dniester River (De Zuo), but it was not recognized by the international community.
This is the fourth country I have not had a United Nations seat since Naka, Northern Cyprus and Western Sahara. The young lady of the tourist information center told me that she knew that some Chinese tour groups would take the bus to come here to punch in, and I was the first Chinese tourist she saw alone. Like the Armenian Naka, the capital Tiraspol is full of soldiers. It is just today to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the end of the Nazi occupation of Tiraspol. There are heavy weapons such as armored vehicles and mortars on the downtown square, but the number seems to be pitiful.
De Zuo retains important elements of the Soviet era, whether it is a Russian-style onion church or a giant Lenin statue at the entrance to the parliament. Their dreams will be merged into Russia one day, but the attitude of the Russian government has always been very embarrassing. The church on the central square is accompanied by tanks, next to the Mausoleum of the War of Independence. I watched the children climb up and down on the tank. I don't know if it was good or bad to grow up with the cannon. And Jesus on the outer wall of the church looked at the tank every day, not knowing what his mood was.
Some people say that Russia inherited the land of the Soviet Union, and that De Zuo really inherited the soul of the Soviet Union.