Vasil Angelov Petleskov was a Bulgarian rebel who led the Bratsigovo April Uprising. On January 1, 1845, he was born in Bratsigovo, then part of the Ottoman Empire. His father, Nayden Velchev, is from the hamlet of Oresz, and his family is from Kastoria. Vasil's father died when he was four or

Stefan Toshev (18 December 1859 – 27 November 1924) was a Bulgarian commander who served during World War I. During the National Revival, his mother was a teacher. During the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), he enlisted in the Bulgarian Opalchentsi Corps and afterwards worked as a translator. He

The monument honors partisans who died fighting in Bulgarian operations during World War II. It is situated in Borisova Garden (Freedom Park during the country's socialist era (1944-1989)), among the mortal remains of seventeen renowned resistance fighters and Bulgarian Communist Party members who

Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko, commonly known as Kobzar Taras or simply Kobzar (in Ukrainian culture, kobzars are bards), was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political personality, folklorist, and ethnographer. His literary legacy is considered as the cornerstone of modern Ukrainian

Temple and monument to the victims of communism's oppression between 1944 and 1989 is located in the National Palace Of Culture Park. Over 7.500 innocent people died under this most ruthless of regimes. The Shrine of Bulgarian Martyrs was consecrated in 1999, and the names of the victims are