Background
He was born in the village of Cărăgaş, Slobozia county.
He was born in the village of Cărăgaş, Slobozia county.
In 1937, he graduated from the Pedagogical Institute in Tiraspol.
After this, he worked at the Institute as lecturer in history. He joined the Communist Party in 1939. In 1940 he became dean of the History Department.
From 1947, he was vice director, and from 1954, he was president of the Moldavian section of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
Grosul developed and edited the Enciclopedia Republici Sovietice Socialiste Moldoveneşti, an eight-volume encyclopedia published between 1964 and 1981. He is noted for his book on the economic development of Bessarabia under Russian rule in the 19th century.
In 2004, his image and name were used on a silver coin minted by Central Bank of Transnistria to honor this native of what today is Transnistria, as part of a series of memorable coins called "The Outstanding People of Pridnestrovie".
In 1961, he was elected as the first president of the new Academy of Science of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Academy of Sciences of Moldova.
He was a good organiser, scientist and historian.