Nikola Balkandzhiev

Detailed list

Birthplace

Manolovo

Other roles held

member of the Bulgarian National Assembly

Biography

Nikola Dimitrov Balkandzhiev (1901-1973) was a Bulgarian public figure and BRP/BKP activist born in Manolovo. From 1921 he lived and worked in Plovdiv, where he was connected with communist, trade-union and tobacco-worker structures; later he became a partisan and political commissar in the First Sredna Gora Brigade Hristo Botev. He was elected chair of the City People's Council after Ivan Perpeliev and governed Plovdiv for nearly a decade (1949-1959). The Regional History Museum Plovdiv study describes him as a resistance veteran with administrative experience; the 1953 tobacco workers' strike was suppressed during his tenure.

Officially listed mayoral term in Plovdiv Municipality's mayor archive: 19 November 1949 – 23 January 1959.

More information

• Plovdiv Municipality — Mayors of Plovdiv · 2026-06-17
• Additional source: Plovdiv Historical Forum - Yuri Gagarin's visit to Plovdiv in May 1961 · 2026-06-21
• Additional source: Regional History Museum Plovdiv - Plovdiv Municipality and the construction of urban and tourist infrastructure, 1944-1990 · 2026-06-21
• Additional source: Wikipedia - Nikola Balkandzhiev · 2026-06-21

The base is Plovdiv Municipality's official “Mayors of Plovdiv” page. The incumbent term is added from Bulgaria's Administrative Register because the municipal historical list still stops at the 2019-2023 term.