Bender town situated on a plot of meandering channel flow of the Dniester River, which originates in the Carpathian Mountains and flows into the Black more.S ancient times to the Dniester were trading caravans from Lviv and Galic at the Cuff and Carthage.

The region is difficult to find a city whose history is rooted in antiquity, so intricately intertwined to its present and future. Convenient location, mild climate, since ancient times attracted people. Here, at the crossroads of trade routes, not just crossed the interests of states and peoples. Over the centuries the territory of the region some tribes were replaced by others, sounded multilingual speech: the Scythians, the Geto-Dacians, Sarmatians, Goths, Huns, Pechenegs Polovtsians, Slavs, Volokh, Tatars, and Turks. About their presence reminds us the ancient city's name: Tunguty, Tyagyanyakyacha, Tighina, Bender. In August 1538 the Turkish sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, headed by a great army attacked the Moldavian principality. After fierce battles, and as a result of betrayal boyars Turks occupied the entire country. Rulers appointed Stephen Lakusta, who consented to the annexation of Tighina Turks. The city and the surrounding 18 villages have been transformed into a Turkish Raijuu named Bender. About this informs the Polish-Moldovan news stored in the National Library in Warsaw. It states that "the Turkish king, While visiting Neringa little in Suceava, went back to Turkey in the land ordered nothing to spoil, but before he took in his possession a lock Moldovan Tighina. On-site customs officials on the plan of the famous Turkish architect Sinan built Koji Bender Fortress.

With a history of the city associated with the names of such famous personalities as Field Marshal Kutuzov, Prince G.Potemkin-Tauride, Earl P. Panin, writer and playwright I. Kotlyarovsky, the leader of a peasant uprising E. Pugachev. Bender - the birthplace of Academician LS Berg, founder of the theory of colloidal chemistry of soils Gedroits, members of the expedition "North Pole-1" Hero of the Soviet Union EK Fedorov. In Bender born Honored Pilot of the USSR, member of Moscow trip - New York City in 1929, S. Shestakov, Hero of the Soviet Union SI Poletskii.

In 1877, the personnel of the Railway Troops of the Russian armed forces, was built by the railroad Bender-Galati, construction of which the writer worked as an engineer NG Garin-Mikhailovsky.

In 1912 the residents of Bandar celebrating the centenary of the victory in the war of 1812 and the accession of Bessarabia to Russia. To this date was timed unveiling of a monument of Russian glory (55 th Infantry Regiment Podolski).