Despite the constant interest of scientists in the architecture of this period, the theme of creativity of the architects of Kishinev in the first half of the XIX century until now almost did not enter the orbit of architectural research. It should be noted, however, a number of publications of the XIX century – the beginning of the XX century, and also the interwar period, the factual material of which helped the author to work on this research (the works of A. Zachchuk, I. Khalippa, P. Svinin, F. Vigel, P.Ciobanu, P. Constantinescu-Yash, and others). Separate problems of architectural creativity of Bessarabian architects of the XIX century were reviewed by some researchers in the Soviet period (the works of I. Ponyatovsky, I. Eltman, K. Rodnin, V. Smirnov, V. Borovsky, N. Yurchenko, J. Taras, etc.). But most of the works that deal with various aspects of the topic of interest appeared in the post-Soviet period (the works of A. Toramanyan, E. Rybalko, M. Slapak, T. Nesterov, D. Postarenku, E. Bognibov, P. Dumitrasku, I Bubis, S. Ciocanu and others). Historiography is full of some mistakes in the indication of names, surnames and dates, in the descriptions of the life and activity of city planners well as in the «databases» of architectural monuments. The need for a comprehensive study of the proposed topic was due to the following reasons: the fragmentation of its coverage and the existence of numerous contradictory data; the need to identify the role of architects, surveyors and military engineers in the city planning of Bessarabia, as well as the study of the architectural structures created by them, which were the unique monuments; the importance of confirming the authorship of the works of individual architects. The purpose of this article is a presentation of many publications relating to the creativity of architects, military engineers and surveyors that worked in Kishinev in the first half of the XIX century. For its achievement the archival documents and materials referring tothe architectural monuments and their authors, such as the architects of Bessarabia of the specified period were revealed in the libraries and archives of the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Russia.