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    The Central Sofia Cemetery (Bulgarian: Централни софийски гробища, romanized: Tsentralni sofiyski grobishta) or the Orlandovtsi Cemetery ("Орландовци")...
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    Lyudmila Zhivkova (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    her second husband Ivan Slavkov held renowned Friday soirées at their central Sofia apartment, offering opportunities for those with a cause to lobby her...
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    Hristo Tatarchev (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    1902 he became a representative of the Foreign Committee of the IMRO in Sofia. Being such, he met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Vladimir...
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    Georgi Asparuhov (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    in a vehicle accident. Levski Sofia's stadium is named in his honour. Asparuhov began his senior career at Levski Sofia in the end of 1959–60 season at...
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  • Pasha Hristova (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    from Arabadzhiev. After being identified, Pasha was buried at Central Sofia Cemetery, in the catholic parcel. Little if any documentation of the details...
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    Stefan Stambolov (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    Bulgaria during the time of the Balkan Wars. He was killed in the center of Sofia by a plot from the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO)...
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    Gyorche Petrov (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). He was its representative in Sofia, the capital of Principality of Bulgaria. As such he was also a member of...
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    Andrey Lukanov (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    [citation needed] Lukanov was assassinated on 2 October 1996 оutside the Sofia apartment where he lived. He was shot in the head and chest by a lone gunman...
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    Elisaveta Bagryana (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    three times. Elisaveta Lyubomirova Belcheva was born on April 16, 1893, in Sofia, Bulgaria, in a clerk's family. She finished her primary and secondary education...
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    Emil Dimitrov (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    He went to study at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia. His career began in 1962, with the premier of his song Arlekino; it won...
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    Georgi Dimitrov (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    display in Sofia's Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum. After the end of Communist rule in Bulgaria, his body was buried in Sofia's central cemetery in 1990. His...
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    Dimitar Talev (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    chauvinist. He was arrested by the communist authorities and was sent to the Sofia Central Prison and later to a forced labour camps. Talev was expelled from the...
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    Pancho Vladigerov (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    his father's early death, Vladigerov and the rest of his family moved to Sofia, where Pancho started studying composition with Dobri Hristov, the most...
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    Aleko Konstantinov (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    Imperial Novorossiya University), graduating in 1885. He worked as a lawyer in Sofia before embarking on a career as a writer. His first novel, organized as...
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    Elin Pelin (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    "Bulgaria's leading writer". He was born in the village of Bailovo, in Sofia District. He completed his primary education, but not his secondary education...
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  • Katya Paskaleva (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    the troupe of the Sofia Municipal Theatre. In 1985, Paskaleva became part of the famous Satirical Theatre "Aleko Konstantinov" in Sofia. Her film debut...
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    Bulgaria's Central Sofia Cemetery. Petkova's memorial service was held on April 29, 2009, at Central Sofia Cemetery in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, with her...
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    Mykhailo Drahomanov (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    shortly after giving a lecture at the University of Sofia. He was buried in the Central Sofia Cemetery. Collections Historical Songs of the Ukrainian People...
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    Vasil Zlatarski (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    Bulgaria and became a secondary school teacher in Sofia and Lecturer in the Higher School (now the Sofia University). He was promoted to the rank of full...
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    Sofia. His remains were transported on a gun carriage as was the custom for a burial of a military hero. He was buried in the Central Sofia Cemetery to...
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  • Viktor Paskov (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    lung cancer in Bern, Switzerland, aged 59. He was buried in the Central Sofia Cemetery. Paskov's early poems were published in the Rodna rech magazine...
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    Dimitar Dimov (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    in the Borisova gradina park behind the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia. His daughter Theodora Dimova is also a writer. In addition, a number of...
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    26, 1986) was a Bulgarian painter. He was born in Kazanluk and died in Sofia at the age of 87. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition...
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    Mihail Savov (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    lyceum Galatasaray in Istanbul (1876). He graduated the Military School in Sofia in 1879 as lieutenant. On 9 July 1881 he was promoted to first lieutenant...
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    Todor Zhivkov (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    Zhivkov became head of the Sofia police force, restyled as the Narodna Militsiya (People's Militia). He was elected to the BCP Central Committee as a candidate...
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    Traicho Kostov (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    was appointed Director of the Bulgarian National Library in Sofia. At a plenum of the Central Committee held on 11 and 12 June 1949, Vasil Kolarov delivered...
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    school choir and her powerful voice led to her being offered a place at the Sofia Conservatory studying under Christo Brambarov between 1959 and 1964. While...
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    Nikola Vaptsarov (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    got fired after a technical failure in 1936. This forced him to move to Sofia, where he worked for the state railway service and the municipal incinerating...
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    Krste Misirkov (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    1925.[page needed] Misirkov died in 1926 and was buried in the Sofia Central Cemetery with the financial support from the Ministry of Education, as an...
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    Hristo Smirnenski (category Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery)
    Kukush; and the Izmirliev family, with thousands of other refugees, went to Sofia. Despite the poverty in which Dimitar Izmirliev and his wife found themselves...
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