David Izrailevich Palatnik (Russian: Давид Израилевич Палатник, 1 November 1913 in Balta, Podolia Governorate – 1998, Chișinău, Moldova) was Moldavian Soviet architect, an honored architect of the Moldavian SSR (1985).
He found work designing buildings with the construction bureau "Dorproekt", on the Odesa-Chișinău railway.
[1] Palatnik designed a number of schools, preschools and maternity hospitals of the city, using elements of Moldavian folk architecture and local materials such as limestone.
Among his works are the City Theatre and Theatre Square (1936) in Tiraspol, and the railway hospital (1954), Riscani Palace of Culture (1971), the 17th Railway School (now the lyceum "Minerva"), and 16-storey complex of three residences on Kuibyshev Street (now Calea Ieșilor), in Chișinău.
An exhibition was held at the National Museum of Archeology and History of Moldova in February 2014 commemorating his centenary.