Pavel Țugui

Pavel Țugui (1 November 1921 – 20 September 2021) was a Romanian communist activist and literary historian.

In 1943–1944 he attended military school, and in the fall of 1944 he fought in World War II on the Transylvanian front.

[1] Initially a member of the Ploughmen's Front, Țugui joined in July 1945 the Romanian Communist Party (PCR; later PMR).

[2] In 1945 he enrolled in the Law School of the University of Iași, but quit after one semester, and in 1947 went to study at the Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy in Bucharest.

In the latter capacity, he met many of the writers, artists and scientists of the day, as his office lay at the intersection between the cultural and arts sphere on the one hand and the party leadership on the other.