This article is about a rare collection of gypsy folklore of the Ursar group living in the Republic of Moldova. The book “Folkloros Romano” was published in Chisinau 50 years ago, in 1970. For romologists-folklorists around the world, this was an important event, as it was the fi rst book published in the Gypsy language (in the Ursar dialect) in the Soviet period. Before the book appeared in print, the prestigious French magazine “Études tsiganes” became interested in it, publishing with short intervals in 1969 and 1971 two tales from this book – “The Bird” and “The Cat”. Almost ten years ago, the book was translated into Russian, and published in the Journal of Ethnology and Culturologie, which signifi cantly increased its distribution. However, the question remained of translating the book into Romanian, which will allow it to reach the reader of the Romanian-speaking space. The author of the book, George Kantya, did not wait for the reissue of his book, having passed away in 2012. Four years ago, Lev Cherenkov died, helping a once young gypsy poet to prepare a book for publication. Regretfully, we learned that the other day Mark Gabinsky, who once introduced these two people, passed away after an illness. The article also attempts to reconstruct the history of the writing of the collection, provides new data and evidence.