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Former Zlatograd MP Sirko Stanchev (left) and two ministers of justice, Iliya Kozhuharov and education, physicist Prof. Georgi Manev, amid a caravan of camels in downtown Zlatograd in 1938. The photo was published in Efim Ushev’s book Zlatograd Pages.
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Sirko Stanchev made the first bathroom
He was interned with Kimon Georgiev in the Rhodope town,
also made the tobacco cooperative “Jebel Basma”
The new parliamentary head Nikola Minchev promised to impose a new tone of work in the plenary hall. PHOTO: RUMYANA TONEVA
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As an MP he signed for the rescue of the Bulgarians
Jews, was shot by the People’s Court
In Zlatograd there is Sirko Stanchev Street, named after the great-grandfather of the current chairman of the 47th National Assembly Nikola Minchev. The small street is in the old part of the city near the museum “Dello Haidutin”.
Sirko Stanchev, who
was military
and trader,
was interned by the government of Kimon Georgiev in Zlatograd because he was close to the palace. Establishes close friendly relations with the locals.
“He was twice in the 24th and 25th National Assembly as a representative from Zlatograd. In 1943 he signed the appeal of 42 MPs against the deportation of Bulgarian Jews, a year later he was convicted by the so-called The People’s Court was also shot on February 1, 1945 “, says Efim Ushev, writer and author of the history of Zlatograd in 4 volumes.
According to Ushev
with its influence in
government
and palace
circles
Sirko Stanchev has made a huge contribution to the development and prosperity of Zlatograd.
He assisted in the construction of the tobacco cooperative “Jebel Basma”, the building of the Bulgarian Agricultural and Cooperative Bank, the city bath – the first public bath in the Rhodopes, and other buildings – community center, school, courthouse.
He also assisted in the retirement of the disgraced Vasilka Zmejkovic, the wife of educator Jacob Zmejkovic, who had been a teacher in the city for a long time.
“Sirko Stanchev’s heirs are also involved in his case in Zlatograd. They too,
including
Nikola Minchev, are
were interested
from his relationship
with the city ”,
Ushev added.
He proposed twice – in 2013 and in 2017, that Sirko Stanchev be posthumously declared an honorary citizen of Zlatograd, but the local parliament did not vote on his proposals.
On Friday, Nikola Minchev was elected chairman of the 47th National Assembly. The lawyer is only 34 years old – the youngest parliamentary chief in our history, but his family has a tradition in politics.
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