Vasile Roaită

Vasile Roaită (1914, Peșteana-Jiu, Gorj –16 February 1933, Bucharest) was a Romanian railway worker for Căile Ferate Române, shot during the Grivița Strike of 1933 and later touted as a proletarian hero under the Communist regime of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. He is buried at the Izvorul Nou Cemetery in Bucharest.

The spa town of Eforie Sud on the Black Sea coast was named in 1928 Carmen-Sylva, after the pen name of Queen Elisabeth of Romania; the name was changed to Vasile Roaită in 1950, and stayed that way until 1962. Likewise, the village of Umbrărești-Deal in Galați County was named in 1933 after General Eremia Grigorescu; the name was changed to Vasile Roaită in 1950, and was kept until 1996.