mayor
Nikola Balkandzhiev
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.
Facts
- Roles
- mayor
- Life dates
- 1901-1973
Linked events
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19 November 1949 – 23 January 1959
Mayor: Nikola Balkandzhiev
Officially listed mayoral term in Plovdiv Municipality's mayor archive: 19 November 1949 – 23 January 1959.
Connections to other people
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Atanas Kostov · succeeds · Nikola Balkandzhiev
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Ivan Perpeliev · succeeded by · Nikola Balkandzhiev
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Nikola Balkandzhiev · succeeds · Ivan Perpeliev
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Nikola Balkandzhiev · succeeded by · Atanas Kostov