ONESTI

formerly Gheorghe Gheorghiu-dej, city, Bacau judet (county), eastern Romania. The city was developed as a planned new town, begun in 1953 on the site of a 15th-century settlement. It was originally named for the communist leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and was renamed Onesti in the early 1990s. It developed as a consequence of the oil, chemical, and industrial complexes in the Trotus River valley, which includes the older settlements of Darmanesti and Trgu Ocna. The city has an oil refinery, and just southeast are chemical and synthetic rubber works and a thermoelectric power station that supplies the city. Pop. (1992 prelim.) 59,008.