Vadim Pirogan (28 June 1921 – 16 January 2007) was a Bessarabian activist and author. He was the head of the Communist Regime Victims Association and a member of the Moldovan Writers' Union.
Vadim Pirogan was born on 28 June 1921 in BÃÂlà £i. His father à Âtefan Pirogan was mayor of BÃÂlà £i in 1923âÂÂ1934. He attended there, having Eugen Coà Âeriu, Sergiu Grossu, Valeriu Gafencu, Ovidiu CreangÃÂ, and Valentin Mândâcanu as his classmates Vadim Pirogan was arrested by the Soviet authorities on 25 June 1941 and for five years, he was imprisoned in Siberia in the Tayshet forced labour camp.
Vadim Pirogan married Veronica in 1952. He graduated from Lviv Polytechnic. He lived in Lviv until 1989, when he moved to Chià ÂinÃÂu. In 2002 he founded there the Muzeul Memoriei Neamului, 'The Museum of National Remembrance'. He was the president of the Communist Regime Victims Association () beginning in 1999.