The economist, academic, politician and minister Victor Jinga, a well-known personality in the interwar Romania, although of Transylvanian origin, of Satulung-Săcelele Brașovului, was strongly linked spiritually to Bessarabia. Belonging to a family of shepherds who practiced transhumance, his grandfather and his father pastured their sheep in the Southern Bessarabia, in the area of the place called Ialpug, then in the village Cioromîrza, Tighina County, even since the second half of the 19th century . Moreover, his grandfather remained buried somewhere near Bolgrad. As a child and teenager, Victor Jinga spent his summer school holidays, then the period of World War I (1915-1918), in this Eastern part of the Romanianity. In his memoirs, still in manuscript, with a genuine talent for storytelling he leaves memorable pages dedicated to places, people and their mentalities, to the political situation in the area, seen through the young eyes, then of the economist who analyzes the labor value in Bessarabia of the end of the 19th century - and early 20th century and thinks its profitable modern formulas. Th ese wires, says Victor Jinga, settled down Bessarabia constantly in my aff ection and my soul, soon aft er my attachment to Transylvania.