Victor Cuciuc (22.08.1918 - 16.07.1989) Romanian chess composer

In 2009 Valeriu Petrovici and Dinu-Ioan Nicula published a booklet about Victor Cuciuc: "Problemistul Victor Cuciuc" (Buletin Problemistic). Let's quote the preface of this opus:

"Victor Cuciuc was a versatile man of chess: a composer, arbiter and solver, he also played chess tourneys and correspondence tourneys. Born in Bessarabia (nowadays Republic of Moldova) he started chess in the late 1930s. He asserted himself in the field of direct mate problems, in which he obtained several titles of national champion in the 1950s until the 1970s. He was the promoter of a thematic idea he thus defined in 1951: "In the initial position, no piece is pinned; during play at least three black pieces are pinned and White gives mate using these pins."
After wandering through the country because of his profession of construction engineer, in the last part of his life he finally set home in the city of Braila, on the banks of the Danube." 

Source: chesscomposers.blogspot.com