Patria Cinema is the first entertainment building of the Soviet period, constructed on the foundations of the former Club of the Bessarabian Nobility, destroyed in the years of the Second World War. From the information published in the recent years, it turned out that the building of the Nobility Club, which became the National Theater in the interwar period, was dismantled in 1937 in order to be rebuilt on its foundations after Ernest Doneaud’s 1936 project in a modernist vision. The building, with its raised walls and mounted roof, survived during the war, being finished in the post-war period, with the architecture modified in the spirit of socialist realism, according to the project of the architect V. Voiţehovski.