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The Monument House of the Bulgarian Communist Party (Bulgarian: Дом паметник на БКП, romanized: Dom pametnik na BKP), also known as the Buzludzha Monument (/ ˈ b ʊ z l ʊ d ʒ ə /), was built on Buzludzha Peak in central Bulgaria by the Bulgarian communist government and inaugurated in 1981.
The Buzludzha Monument was finished in 1981 -- but it was abandoned in 1989, the same year that the Bulgarian Communist regime fell. Take a look inside an abandoned $35M Communist monument Skip to ...
Following a desire for a national monument at the peak to commemorate these events (proposed as early as 1898) the Buzludzha Monument was built from 1974 to 1981, by public subscription. [8] The site has several other monuments to its history: A statue of Hadzhi Dimitar, a relief of the 1891 Congress, and a monument to the partisans who fought ...
Georgi Vladimirov Stoilov (Bulgarian: Георги Владимиров Стоилов; 3 April 1929 – 14 December 2022) was a Bulgarian architect and politician best known for designing the Buzludzha Monument.
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Buzludzha National Park rises east of the Shipka pass. It is a very important part of Bulgarian history – here, on 30 July 1868, Hadzhi Dimitar fell in battle. He was at the head of a small group of rebels fighting the numerous Turkish enemy. In 1961 a monument was built here to commemorate this act of heroism.
The remaining 58 members proceeded to the Balkan Mountains under the leadership of Hadzhi Dimitar, only to be crushed at Buzludzha Peak on 18 July. After being defeated in this last battle, leader Hadzhi Dimitar, heavily wounded, was carried on a stretcher by his surviving comrades away from Ottoman army, up Mount Kadrafill, 3 km from the ...