Ibănești is a commune located in Vaslui County, Western Moldavia, Romania, with a population of approximately 1,500.

Located seven miles from Ibănești, it was named after cneaz Toader Manzat, mentioned in chronicles of Stephen III the Great.

At the time, it included Ghicani village, now part of Alexandru Vlahuță, to which Ibănești Commune was then absorbed.

In 1889, on land near Mânzați, researcher Grigore Ștefănescu discovered the fossilized skeleton of a Mammoth from the species Deinotherium gigantissimum.

It is exhibited at Bucharest's Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History, mounted in 1906 by Belgian restorer L. F. de Pauw.