The Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria () was awarded to Bulgarian and foreign citizens for merits in defending Bulgaria and other countries allied to Bulgaria. Established on 15 June 1948, it was awarded until 1990. It was the highest honour of the

People's Republic of Bulgaria The People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB; , NRB; ) was the official name of Bulgaria when it was a socialist republic from 1946 to 1990, ruled by the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP; ) together with its coalition partner, the Bulgarian Agraria ...

. Individuals who were named Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria were also awarded the

Order of Georgi Dimitrov The Order of Georgi Dimitrov (or Order of Georgy Dimitrov, ) was the highest award of the People's Republic of Bulgaria. It was instituted on 17 June 1950 and awarded to Bulgarians and foreigners for outstanding services to the defence and freedom ...

, Bulgaria's highest award at the time.

Notable recipients

Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and the Premier of the Soviet Union, Chai ...

(Politician) 1964, *General Ivan Mihajlov (Military/Politician) 6 March 1967, *

Tsola Dragoycheva Tsola Nincheva Dragoycheva (; 18 August 1898 – 26 May 1993), also known under the pseudonym Sonya, was a Bulgarian politician of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP). A member of the illegal armed wing of the party in the 1920s, she spent yea ...

(Politician) 1968, *

Todor Zhivkov Todor Hristov Zhivkov ( ; 7 September 1911 – 5 August 1998) was a Bulgarians, Bulgarian communist statesman who served as the ''de facto'' leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB) from 1954 until 1989 as General Secretary of the Cen ...

(Politician) 1971 and 1981, *Bojan Balgaranov (Politician) 1972, *

Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 190610 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev, his death in 1982 as w ...

(Politician) 1973, 1976 and 1981, * Zachari Zachariev Aka Goranov Semenovich / (Military) 1974. *General Dobri Djurov (Military/Politician) 1976, * Georgi Ivanov (Cosmonaut) 1979, *

Nikolai Rukavishnikov Nikolai Nikolayevich Rukavishnikov (; 18 September 1932 – 19 October 2002) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 10, Soyuz 16, and Soyuz 33. Two of these missions, Soyuz 10 and Soyuz 33, were intended ...

(Cosmonaut) 1979, *

Aleksei Yeliseyev Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev (; born 13 July 1934) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 5, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10. He made the world's eighth spacewalk during Soyuz 5 in 19 ...

(Cosmonaut) 1979, *Marshal Of The Soviet Union

Fyodor Tolbukhin Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbukhin (; 16 June 1894 – 17 October 1949) was a Soviet Union, Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union. He is regarded as one of the finest Soviet generals of World War II. Born into a peasant family i ...

(Military) 1981 (Posthumously), *

Elisaveta Bagriana Elisaveta Bagryana (; 16 April 1893 – 23 March 1991), born Elisaveta Lyubomirova Belcheva (), was a Bulgarians, Bulgarian poet who wrote her first verses while living with her family in Veliko Tarnovo in 1907–08. She, along with Dora Gabe ...

(Poet) 1983, *

Hristo Prodanov Hristo Ivanov Prodanov also known as Christo Prodanov (; 24 February 1943 – disappeared 21 April 1984) was a Bulgarian mountaineer. Prodanov was the first Bulgarian to climb Mount Everest, doing it via the most difficult way—the West Ridge— ...

(Mountaineer) 1984 (Posthumously), *

Aleksandar Panayotov Aleksandrov Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov (; born December 1, 1951) is a retired Bulgarian cosmonaut. He is the second Bulgarian to have flown to space, behind Georgi Ivanov (cosmonaut), Georgi Ivanov. Biography Aleksandrov was born in Omurtag, Bulgaria ...

(Cosmonaut) 1988, *

Anatoly Solovyev Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev (; ; alternate spelling "Solovyov"; born 16 January 1948) is a retired Latvian and Soviet Union, Soviet cosmonaut and pilot. Solovyev holds the List of cumulative spacewalk records, world record on the number of extra- ...

(Cosmonaut) 1988, *

Viktor Savinykh Viktor Petrovich Savinykh (born 7 March 1940) is a Soviet cosmonaut, scientist, and organizer of personnel training in the higher education system. Selected as a cosmonaut on 1 December 1978, he flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz T-4, Soyuz T-13 ...

(Cosmonaut) 1988, *

Anton Yugov Anton Tanev (Dontcho) Yugov () (5 August 1904 – 6 July 1991) was a Bulgarian politician who was a leading member of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP), and served as Prime Minister of the country from 1956 to 1962. He was an Honorary Citiz ...

(Politician) 1989, *

Georgi Traykov Georgi Traykov Girovski, also known as Georgi Traykov (, 14 April 1898 – 14 January 1975), was a Bulgarian politician and the longtime leader of Bulgarian Agrarian National Union. Traykov became leader of the Agrarian Union in December 1947, a ...

(Politician), * Grisha Filipov (Politician), *

Karlo Lukanov Karlo Todorov Lukanov (; – 15 July 1982) was a Bulgarian politician of the Bulgarian Communist Party and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1956 to 1962. His father Todor Lukanov and his son Andrey Lukanov were both prominent socialist and commun ...

(Politician), *Peko Takov (Politician), *Sava Ganovski (Politician). *

Yuri Andropov Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov ( – 9 February 1984) was a Soviet politician who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from late 1982 until his death in 1984. He previously served as the List of Chairmen of t ...

(politician) *

Venko Markovski Venko Markovski ( Bulgarian and ), born Veniyamin Milanov Toshev (; ; March 5, 1915 – January 7, 1988) was a Bulgarian and Macedonian writer, poet, partisan and Communist politician. Biography Born on March 5, 1915, in Skopje, Kingdom of Se ...

(Poet)

References

{{Reflist Orders, decorations, and medals of Bulgaria Awards established in 1948 Awards disestablished in 1990 Hero (title)