Petru Pascari (Russian: Пётр Андреевич Паскарь, romanized: Pyotr Andreyevich Paskar; born 22 September 1929)[1] is a Soviet and Moldovan politician.

Petru Pascari was born in the small village of Stroenți (Stroiești) in the north of Transnistria, in Rîbnița District.

From 1946 to 1949, he worked at a wine-making technical school in the village of Saharna before enrolling in the Chisinau Agricultural Institute (now State Agrarian University of Moldova).

For ten years after he worked as an agronomist before becoming a minister in the cabinet.

In December 1962, he became Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova.