Topic summary
Free University of Political and Economic Sciences
Extracted from the Wikipedia article University of National and World Economy.
Founding
UNWE was founded in 1920 as the Free University of Political and Economic Sciences (FUPES) by Stefan Bobchev and the Russian emigre Peter Bogaevsky with ordinance of the Minister of Public Education. In 1940, FUPES was transformed into the State Higher Education School of Finance and Administrative Sciences (SHESFA) and in 1947, SHESFA was transformed into a Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences at Sofia University.