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Angel Solakov
Angel Ivanov Solakov (; 22 July 1922 – 1998) was a Bulgarian Communist politician and statesman who served as the Minister of Interior and chairman of the Committee for State Security. Biography Solakov was born in Sofia and joined the Workers' Youth League at the age of 16 in 1938 and the Bulgarian Communist Party in 1942. During the war, Solakov led communist partisan detachments against the regime. He was arrested and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Solakov was released in 1944 after the Soviet army invaded Bulgaria. Solakov was active in the Dimitrov Communist Youth Union and was secretary of the Central Committee of the union from 1951 to 1958. After power was solidified in the hands of Todor Zhivkov, Solakov quickly rose in the hierarchy of the Bulgarian People's Republic. He was co-opted into the Central Committee of the BCP and was appointed deputy Interior Minister. In 1965 he took an active part in the suppression of the 1965 coup d'état attempt, after wh ...
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Ministry Of Interior (Bulgaria)
The Ministry of Interior (, abbreviated ''МВР'', ''MVR'') of Bulgaria is the Ministry (government department), ministry charged with the national security and the upholding of law and order (politics), law and order in the country. The ministry was established in 1879 under Knyaz Alexander of Battenberg with the first prime minister and interior minister of what was then the autonomous Principality of Bulgaria being Todor Burmov. As of September 2023 the Minister of Interior is Atanas Ilkov. Border Troops In the 1980s, the Border Troops (Гранични войски) were a paramilitary formation under the Interior Ministry tasked with guarding Bulgaria's borders. Heavily concentrated on Bulgaria's Iron Curtain border with NATO members Greece and Turkey the Border Troops would have come under the Ministry of People's Defence in times of war. However, the frontier with Romania was also actively defended. After the Cold War the border troops were reformed as the Border Polic ...
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Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
The Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) was a conflict between the Ottoman Empire and a coalition led by the Russian Empire which included United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, Romania, Principality of Serbia, Serbia, and Principality of Montenegro, Montenegro. Precipitating factors included the Russian goals of recovering territorial losses endured during the Crimean War of 1853–1856, re-establishing itself in the Black Sea and supporting the political movement attempting to free Balkan nations from the Ottoman Empire. The Romanian army had around 114,000 soldiers in the war. In Romania the war is called the Russo-Romanian-Turkish War (1877–1878) or the Romanian War of Independence, Romanian War of Independence (1877–1878). The Russian-led coalition won the war, pushing the Ottomans back all the way to the gates of Constantinople, leading to the intervention of the Western European great powers. As a result, Russia succeeded in claiming provinces in the Caucasus, n ...
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Bulgarian Communist Party Politicians
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Bulgarian Communists
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1998 Deaths
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1922 Births
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People From Sofia
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Bulgarian Generals
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Bulgarian Olympic Committee
The Bulgarian Olympic Committee (; abbreviated as БОК, BOC) is a non-profit organization serving as the National Olympic Committee of Bulgaria and a part of the International Olympic Committee. History The Bulgarian Olympic committee was formed on 30 March 1923 (with Bulgaria participating in the Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international Olympic sports, sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a Multi-s ... since the first modern Olympiad in 1896) and disbanded between September 1944 and 1952, since when it has continuously represented the country in the Olympic movement. List of presidents IOC Members Member federations The Bulgarian National Federations are the organizations that coordinate all aspects of their individual sports. They are responsible for training, competition and development of their sports. There are ...
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Semyon Tsvigun
Semyon Kuzmich Tsvigun (; ; 28 September 1917 – 19 January 1982) was a Soviet officer of the KGB with important ties to Leonid Brezhnev. His sudden death (reportedly a suicide) heralded a major shift in Kremlin power politics. Career Semyon Tsvigun was born into a large family of Ukrainian peasants, in Stratievka village, in the Chechelnyk District of Odesa Governorate, located near the Vinnytsia region of Ukraine. After graduating, he worked as a history teacher in the region of west Ukraine then designated as the Moldavian Autonomous Region. In November 1939, he was recruited to the NKVD. This was at a time when Joseph Stalin and the new chief of police, Lavrentiy Beria were preparing to seize the former Russian-ruled province of Bessarabia from Romania, to create the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, now (Moldova). He escaped from Moldova after the German invasion in June 1941, and, according to his autobiography, he was sent into Odessa by boat when it was under sieg ...
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Levski-Spartak Sofia
PFC Levski Sofia () 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 by a group of high school students, and is named after Vasil Levski, a Bulgarian revolutionary renowned as the national hero of the country. Levski have won a total of 74 trophies, including 26 national championships, 26 national cups and 3 supercups, as well as 13 domestic doubles and one treble. They are the only Bulgarian football club to have never been relegated from the top division since the establishment of the league system in 1937. On the international stage, Levski reached the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup twice and the quarter-finals of the Cup Winners' Cup three times. In addition, the club finished as runners-up of the Balkans Cup twice. In 2006, Levski became the first Bulgarian club to play in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League. ...
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Sofia
Sofia is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain, in the western part of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar (river), Iskar river and has many mineral springs, such as the Sofia Central Mineral Baths. It has a humid continental climate. Known as Serdica in Classical antiquity, antiquity, Sofia has been an area of human habitation since at least 7000 BC. The recorded history of the city begins with the attestation of the conquest of Serdica by the Roman Republic in 29 BC from the Celtic settlement of Southeast Europe, Celtic tribe Serdi. During the decline of the Roman Empire, the city was raided by Huns, Visigoths, Pannonian Avars, Avars, and Slavs. In 809, Serdica was incorporated into the First Bulgarian Empire by Khan (title), Khan Krum and became known as Sredets. In 1018, the Byzantine Empire, Byzantines ended Bulgarian rule until 1194, ...
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