Kazichene ( bg, Казичене ) is a large village in the
Pancharevo
Pancharevo ( bg, Панчарево, , also transcribed as Pančarevo) is a resort village and district located on the outskirts of Sofia close to Vitosha, Lozenska and Plana mountains and occupies the southeastern part of the Capital Municipa ...
district to the east of the
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...
n capital of
Sofia
Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...
. As of 2007, the village officially had 4,977 inhabitants. Because of its close proximity to the Sofia ring road and the nearby railroad, over the past decade the area has developed into an industrial-storage zone with a logistics center and offices of a number of prominent companies such as Werta Logistics, Balkan Steel Engineering, and the Chipita snacks factory.
There is a large lake near Kazichene where the Litex
water park
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is located. Built in the mid-1980s, today the park is the only place in Bulgaria offering
boatless water skiing and
wakeboarding
Wakeboarding is a water sport in which the rider, standing on a wakeboard (a board with foot bindings), is towed behind a motorboat across its wake and especially up off the crest in order to perform aerial maneuvers. A hallmark of wakeboardin ...
.
The village has a single football club, FC Kazichene, playing in the Bulgarian fourth division, known as the
A OFG. Several prominent footballers have ended their careers there, including
Emil Kremenliev
Emil Georgiev Kremenliev ( bg, Емил Георгиев Кременлиев; born 13 August 1969) is a Bulgarian former professional footballer who played as a right-back.
Career
Kremenliev played club football for Slavia Sofia, Levski Sofi ...
and
Ivan Vasilev Ivan Vasilev may refer to:
* Ivan Vasilev (footballer, born 1967)
* Ivan Vasilev (footballer, born 2001)
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. The town is also known for being the birthplace of
Plamen Krumov, a current
Levski Sofia
Levski Sofia ( bg, Левски София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded on 24 May 1914 b ...
footballer, and
Borislav Stoyanov
Borislav Stoyanov ( bg, Борислав Траянов Стоянов, born 13 February 1985) is a Bulgarian footballer currently playing for SG Pertolzhofen/Niedermurach in the Kreisliga West in the region Cham/Schwandorf as a goalkeeper.
...
, who plays for
SV Schwarzhofen
SV, Sv, sv, etc. may refer to:
Places and language
* El Salvador, ISO 3166-1 country code SV
* South Vietnam, an extinct state
* Svalbard, Norway, FIPS country code SV
* Swedish language, ISO 639-1 language code sv
* Silicon Valley, a region in n ...
.
Kazichene Cove on
Low Island
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in the
South Shetland Islands
The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...
,
Antarctica
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is named after Kazichene.
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica:
Kazichene Cove.
Gallery
File:Hydropark Litex Water Ski Station Kazichene Bulgaria.jpg, The water ski lift station
File:The French House Kazichene Bulgaria.jpg, The "French House" in Kazichene, with the inscription "My Heart Beats for France"
File:Chipita Snacks Factory Kazichene Bulgaria.jpg, The Chipita Snacks Factory
References
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Villages in Sofia City Province