The article deals with ethnocultural aspect of formation of the contemporary urban environment in Chisinau. The main idea is interconnection among ethnocultural characteristics of different groups of population, their levels of urban socialization and importance of urban identity for the Chisinau milieu pattern. The author argues that the roots of this pattern lie in such factors as history of belonging to different political and ideological areas, special features of Soviet urbanization of Moldova, and ethnocultural dynamics of population in Chisinau, which led to coexistence of different urban population groups, linguistic and cultural specificity of the city.