Statnislav Moroz

Stanislav Ivanovich Moroz (; ; 1938–2013) was a Soviet, later Transnistrian, engineer and politician. His early professional career was focused on Tiraspol, in what was then the eastern portion of the Moldavian SSR, integrated within the republican State Planning Committee from 1981. Moroz was a politician of both the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and Communist Party of Moldavia (PCM). He resigned his offices in the PCM during the 1990 standoff between the republican authorities and the Transnistrian separatists, expressing support for the separatist leader, Igor Smirnov. A longtime member of Tiraspol's city government, Moroz served as the acting Prime Minister of Transnistria from September to December 1990, and, during the dissolution of the Soviet Union, played a part in negotiating between the two sides of the Transnistria War. His political office was disestablished in 1991, upon which he withdrew from public life.

Biography Moroz was born on either 9 March or 9 April 1938. The place of his birth is variously given as either Rozdilna, in the Ukrainian SSR,

A key figure in construction in Tiraspol during the 1970s and 1980s, Moroz went on to serve as head of his department in the Central Committee of the PCM from 1987 to 2 August 1989, when he became deputy chairman of the under Mircea Snegur. Also then, Moroz expressed frustration with the PCM's Transnistria policy, and resigned his post as deputy chairman before moving back to Tiraspol.

Moroz's ministerial position was abolished in December 1990, After his death, a memorial plaque was installed at his former residence.