Chişinăuianul Alexandru Kidel de la bun început a intenţionat a se ocupa de cercetările economiei Moldovei (Basarabiei). Dar regimurile prin care a trecut i-au permis doar să-şi potolească pofta, popularizând cartea ştiinţifică. În calitate de bibliograf, bibliolog şi manager de profil o viaţă întreagă a propagat creaţiile oamenilor de ştiinţă şi, concomitent, a pus bazele Bibliotecii Ştiinţifice Centrale a Academiei de Ştiinţe a Moldovei.

Initially Alexander Kidel, the resident of Chisinau, had his own program on the Moldovan economy (Bessarabia) research. But the existing regimes allowed him to slake his thirst only in scientific book popularization. As a bibliophile, bibliographer and profile manager he promoted scientific works his whole life and was one of the founders of the Central Scientific Library of the Academy of Sciences.