The village was founded by merging three localities: Zgura in the North, Nicorești in North-West, two Romanian villages mentioned before 1812, and Zgurița (little Zgura), in South-West, a Jewish agricultural colony founded in 1853 on an area of over 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) rented by Jewish settlers in Bessarabia.

From 1890 to 1903 further Jewish settlement in Zgurița was prohibited by virtue of the May Laws issued by the Russian Tsarist authorities on May 3, 1882.

In 1940, the Soviet Union with the consent of Nazi Germany, occupied Bessarabia, and created the Moldavian SSR, closing privately owned businesses, and religious schools.

A year later, Romanian Army, now allied with the Nazi Germany, drove the Soviets out and recovered Bessarabia.

The village's last Jewish resident, mill owner Motl Weinberg, left in 2001.