It governs over a portion of the city of Chișinău itself (the northeastern part), the town of Cricova, and the communes of Ciorescu, Grătiești, and Stăuceni.

In 1915, the genealogist Gheorghe Ghibănescu dedicated volume X of his surete and Izvoade series to the Râșcanu family.

In this volume was also published the family tree which was later completed by the historian Gheorghe G. Bezviconi and then updated by the architect Dan Râșcanu.

Constantin Râșcanu is the founder of the Church of the Holy Emperors Constantine and Helen on the walls of which, along with other inscriptions, the following could be read: The modern history of the Rîșcani sector begins on April 12, 1941, when by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the MSSR, Chisinau was divided into three districts: Lenin, Krasnoarmeisk and Stalin, currently Rîșcani sector.

Everywhere, in the red field, a silver bridge, built black, on which stands a stripped, golden diligence, and accompanied under the arch by an anchor, also of gold.