HIGH OFFICIALS ATTENDING AND AWARDS GIVEN AT BULGARIAN CELEBRATIONS

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• Publication Date: December 29, 1952
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INFORMATION FROM
FOHEICN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Political; Militsry - Biographic
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE-
PUBLISHED 'Sofia
DATE
PUBLISHED 4 - 27 Sep 1952
LANGUAGE Bulgarian
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
HIGH OFFICIALS ATTENDING AND AWARDS GIVEN AT BULGARIAN CELEBRATIONS
fomment: The following report lists the officials.who attended
recent Bulgarian celebrations and the recipients of awards given on'
the occasions.
It is interesting to note that Georgi Damyanov, president of the
Presidium of the Bulgarian People's Assembly, neither appeared in the
group photographs in Otechestven Front of 10 September 1952 nor was
mentioned by this newspaper as being present at the "9 September" cele-
bration. It also may be of interest that Minister of Interior Georgi
Tsankov is referred to as Lieutenant Gencral in the 14 September 1952
Otechestven Front article which describes the Eighth Anniversary of
the Ministry of Interior, and that he appeared in a military uniform
in the photographs in Otechestven Front of 10 and 14 September 1952.
(He did not appear in uniform in group photographs published in Sofia
newspapers on 10 September 1951.)
A group photograph shows the following officials who attended the "9 Septem-
ber" Liberat_on celebration in Sofia (from left to right): Georgi Tsankov;
Col Gen Ivan Milinaylov, Col Gen Petur Panchevski; Yi Son-un, leader of the Korean
government delegation; Anton Yugov, Soviet Ambassador M. F. Bodrov, M. P. Tarasov,
leaderif the Soviet government delegation; Colonel General Grechko, member of
the Soviet government delegation; militiaman Dyado Krustyu Popov, who participated
in the Russo-Turkish'War; Donka Panayotova and Lilyana Dimitrovp, heroes of.social-
ist labor; Vulko Chervenkov, Rayko'Damyanov, Ambassador Ts'ao h31ang-jen of the
Chinese People's Republic, Goorgi Chankov, Todor Zhivkov, Dimitur Ganev, Georgi Tray-
kov, Mincho Iieychev, and Dimitur Dimov-
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The following additional persons were mentioned as being present at the cele-
bration: Vice-Premier Karlo Lukanov. and heroes of socialist labor Todor Stoichkov,
Ferdo Stoimenov, and Aleksandur'Mitrr.v.(1) ftoichkov and Mitrev, although not
government officials, were also present at the May Day celebration.(6)7
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Major General Dikov, chief of the Sofia Garrison, ordered Colonel Petkov,
the commander of Sofia, to see that the various units reported for the 9 Septem-
ber parade. He put Colonel Tsonkov in charge of the artillery salutee.(2)
A group photograph shows the following officials who attended the celebration
in Sofia of the eighth anniversary of the Ministry of Interior: (from left to
right) Todor Zhivkov; Rayko Damyanov; Vulko Chervenkov; It Gen Georgi Tsankov,
CentralrCommitteeiof;the Bulgarian CommunisttFarty ZFecently replaced by fZhthe
ivho
Zhivkov as Minister of Foreign Trade U95217; Maj Gen Georgi Kumbiliev, Assistant
Minister of Interior; Con Gen Ivan Mikhaylov; Georgi Chankov; Maj Gen Stoyan
Gyurov; Anton Yugov; Col Gen Petur Panchevski; Karlo Lukanov; and Maj Gen Yonko
Panov. Vecherni Novini of 15 September 1952 states that Ivan Raykov was also
present.
In honor of the occasion the following awards were made:
The Order of 9 Sep`emvri II Stepen'(9 September, second class)ewas.awarded to
Col Nikola Angelov Iliev and Col Petko Stoyanov Stoyanov.
The Order of 9 Septemvri II stepen s mechove (with crossed swords) was awarded
to It Col Merin Stoyanov Marinov.
The Order of Cherveno zname (Red Banner) was awarded to Maj Petur Dimitrov
Yanchev, Sr It Anton Andreev Meykov, Maj Stoycho Georgiev Totlyakov, Sr It Ivan
Nikolov Albanski, Sr Lt Dimitur Kolev Dimitro v, Lt Vasil Vasilev Stoykov, Jr It
Botei Dakov Petkov, Capt Nikola Angelov Gyulev, Ma,) Georgi Yanev Ivanov, Capt Yor-
dan Khristov Yordanov, Sr Lt Dragan Kolev Ang-';c?, Capt Stoyan Nikolov Georgiev,
Lt Atanas Atanasov Peshev, Capt Georgi Pavlov Simeonov Jr Sgt Ivan Peev Nikolov,
Tsanko Vladimirov Lazarov, and Capt Ivan Radev Milev.
The Order of Cherveno zname na Truda (Red Banner of Labor) was awarded to
Yordan Tsvetkov Milev.
The order of Za khrabrost III stepen (For Bravery, third clrs.d) wee awarded
to It Geto Lulchev Todorov, Jr Sgt Yovcho Dimitrov Yovchev, Jr S. Bonyu Ivanov
Bonev, Pvt Marin Khristov Vulkov, and Pvt Yordan Panayotov Georgiev.
The Za boeva zasluge (For Combat Merit) Medal was presented to Capt Mircho
Nikolov Buinarski, Jr It Gta:gi Nikolov Spiridonov, Sr Sgt Khristo Rusinov Nikolov,
Sgt Boris Georgiev Ivanov. Jr Sgt Ivan Tsanov Ivanov, Pfc Milan Babinov Kazakov,
Pvt Bocho Velev Monev, Pvt Dimitur Aleksiev Ivanov, Ivan Apostolov Todorov, It Angel
Ivanov Angelov, Lt Dimitur Angelov Ivanov, Lt Stoyan Ivanov Vasilev, Sgt Mai Minko
Zhelyazkov Georgiev, Pfc Kostadin Georgiev Kostov, Pfc Dimitur Ivanov Simeonov,
Pfc Dimo Vasilev Datsev, Pfc Georgi Ivanov Babanov, Pfc Lyuben Vurbanov Naydenov,
Pvt Tsvetan Naydenov Petkov, Pvt Atanas Georgiev Atanasov, Pvt Svilen Stamenov
Tsankov, Pvt All Mekhmedov Khs,??+zov, Pvt Ivan Kirilov Ivanov, Pvt Slavcho Mironov
Inchev, Pvt Stefan Krustev Zlacarev, Pvt Kii?il Kirilov Mirchev, Pvt Steyko Dilkov
Stoev, Pvt Ignat Kirilov Kazakov, Jr Sgt Ivan Khristov Todorov, Pvt Angel Tanov
Angelov, Pvt Vasil Penchev Vurbanov, Pvt Damyan Iliev Rusev, Jr Sgt Vasil Dimitrov
Perchemliev, Georgi Vasilev Georgiev, Lt Boris Angelov Gruev, and Jr Sgt Aleksi
Marinov Aleksiev.(4)
A group photograph shows the following officials who attended the f1_6 Septem-
ber 19527 meeting in Sofia on the occasion of Bulgarian-Soviet friendship month:
(from left to right) Georg' Tsankov; Petr N. Fedoseyev, corresponding member of the
Academy of Sciences of the USSR; Todor Zhivkov, Mincho Neychev; Pavel N. Sergeyev,
soviet agronomist; Vulko Chervenkov, Lidya G. Korabel'nikova; Klavdya P. Karal'ova;
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Konatantin I. Skryabin, head of the Soviet delegation; Soviet Ambassador Mikhail
F. Bodrov; Georgi Chankov; Ivan I. Brid'ko, section chief in a Soviet mine; Nikolay
N. Kryukov, head of the Soviet art delegation; Rayko Damyanov; V. Penov, representa-
tive of the VOKS in Bulgaria (Vsesuyuzna Organizatsiya za Kulturni Vruzki a Chuzh-
bina, All-Union Organization for Cultural Ties With Foreign Countries); Dimitur
Ganev; and Karlo Lukanov.
Also present'and mentioned in the test were Encho Staykov and Ivan Raykov,
both secretaries of the Tsk na BKP (Tsentralen Komitet.na Bulgarskata Komunisticheska
,Partiya, Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party); Mikhail Manev, the
first, secretary of the T5S na SBSD (Tsentralen Suvet na Suyuz na Bulgaro-Suvetskite
Druzhestva, Central Council of the Bulgarian-Soviet fFriendshi!7 Societies); and
Misho Nikolov, the chairman of the Sofiyski Gradski Suvet (Sofia city council)
of theSBSD, who made a short speech.(5)
The following were present at another celebration of the Bulgarian-Soviet
Friendship. Month held in Sofia 26 September by the Bulgarian-Soviet Friendship
Society at the Ministry of PTT (Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones): Toole Dragoy-
cheva, Minister of PTT;' Kosta Gane , Assistant Minister of PIT; General Peychev;
as well as Dimitrov Prize'Winners Vl. Kharizanov and Engineer Rashev.(3)
On 26 September Grudi Atanaeov, chairman of the Main Labor Reserves Adminis-
tration, which is attached to the Council of Ministers, made a speech on the new
school year at a conference of directors of industrial schools and labor reserves
schools in Sofia.(3)
SOURCES
1. 0techestven Front, 10 Sep 52
2. Vechernl Novini, 8 Sep 52
3. Ibid., 27 Sep 52
7. Otechestven Front, 14 Sep 52.
5. ibid., 17 Sep 52
6. 00-W-23523, High op?iciala Present
at Sofia May Day Parade, i4 AuF 1952
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