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Myrnograd (Ukrainian Myrnohrad, until 2016 - Dimitrov) is a city of regional significance in eastern Ukraine in the Donetsk region. It is located 8 km from the Pokrovsk railway junction. The village of Svetloye is subordinated to the city. Distance to Donetsk: by road - 68 km, by rail - 59 km. Distance to Kiev: by road - 675 km, by rail - 797 km.

It was formed by combining the workers' settlements of the Novoeconomic and Grodovsky mines. Each of the listed villages has its own history. The discovery of coal seams on the lands of the village of Novoeconomicheskoe belongs to Afanasy Prokofievich Evtukhov. In the spring of 1909, the community donated four tithes of land in the Veselaya gully for coal mining. It was a small peasant mine run by the contractor Evtukhov. In 1911, most of the mines became the property of the Donetsk-Hrushevsky Joint Stock Company of Coal and Anthracite Mines, which led to the creation of one of the largest coal mining centers in the Donbass. With the revival of industrial production in 1910, new mines arose in the Grishinsky coal region: Novoeconomichesky, Grodovsky and Zapadno-Donetsky. Coal mining was carried out by small mines under the leadership of Kachanov. In 1911, industrialists Krechunsko and Ievlev received permission to prospect for minerals on the lands of the village of Novoeconomicheskoe. The new owners, who were part of the Donetsk-Hrushevskoe joint-stock company, began to lay the mines. Mine No. 1 "Central" in 1911 was registered in archival documents as an industrial enterprise. The beginning of the construction of the Tsentralnaya mine should be considered the year of foundation of our city. In 1913, mine No. 3 (the predecessor of mine No. 3 "bis") and No. 4 went into operation. The name Novoeconomichesky mine was assigned to these mines. In the spring of 1915, on the southwestern outskirts of the present town of Dimitrov, at that time on the territory of the Grodovsky mine, construction of the shaft of a new mine began. It was shaft No. 5 of the currently operating Dimitrova mine. Engineer Kazarinov became the owner of the Grodovsky mine. Small workers' settlements were formed near the mines. In 1934, the Grodovsky mine was renamed into "New Donbass", and in 1933 the mine was named after a prominent figure in the international labor movement Georgy Dimitrov. Since 1923, the Novoeconomichesky mine began to be called the Novoeconomicheskoe settlement, and in 1938 Novoeconomichesky received the status of a city. Having merged, small settlements of neighboring mines were named the village of Dimitrov. On July 5, 1965, by the decision of the Donetsk Regional Council of Working People's Deputies, the city of Novoeconomic, territorially practically merging with the village of Dimitrov, received the status of the city of Dimitrov. On May 9, 1972, by the decision of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, the cities of Novoeconomicheskoe and Dimitrov were united into one city of Dimitrov of regional subordination. On August 2, 1990, by the decision of the session of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, the city of Dimitrov received the status of a city of regional subordination. On March 21, 2016, in accordance with the law on decommunization, the Dimitrovsk deputies elected ...

He was called "Bulgarian Lenin", after his death in the era of socialism in Bulgaria, a mausoleum was built for him in Sofia like Lenin's and he was called the "leader" of the Bulgarian people.

Biography

The son of a craftsman. From 1894 he worked as a typesetter. Since 1901 - secretary of the trade union of printers (Sofia).

Bulgarian revolutionary, parliamentarian and rebel

In 1902 he joined the Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party (BRSD), and in 1903 he joined the Bolshevik part of it - “close socialists”. Since 1909 - a member of the Central Committee of the IRBM (close socialists), which in 1919 was transformed into the Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP). In 1909-1923, secretary of the General Workers' Trade Union, organizer of strikes. In 1913-1923 - Member of the Bulgarian Parliament. In 1921 he took part in the work of the III Congress of the Comintern and in the same year was elected a member of the Central Council of the Profintern. In September 1923 - one of the leaders of the armed uprising against the Tsankov government in Bulgaria. After the failure of the attempt to seize power, he fled with V. Kolarov and other agents of the Comintern to Yugoslavia, then lived in the USSR. For participation in an armed rebellion, he was sentenced to death in absentia.

Comintern agent in Germany

In the fall of 1929 he moved to Germany. Lived incognito in Berlin. He actively participated in the activities of the Comintern, conducted communist propaganda.
He was arrested by the Nazis on charges of involvement in the burning of the Reichstag on February 27, 1933, but at the Leipzig trial (September-December 1933) he was acquitted because he had an alibi. Dimitrov had a good command of German and his speeches at the trial were widely used in anti-fascist propaganda, and Dimitrov himself was granted Soviet citizenship, and the USSR demanded his extradition.

Leader of the Comintern

Arrived in the USSR on February 27, 1934. In the 1930s, along with Ernst Thälmann and Dolores Ibarruri, he was one of the charismatic leaders of the international communist movement. In 1935 he was elected general secretary Executive Committee of the Comintern (ECCI).

After the VII Congress, the Comintern proclaimed a course towards a broad anti-fascist coalition. However, in connection with the repressions of 1937-1938, the influence of the Comintern has noticeably decreased. Dimitrov was not repressed, unlike most of the leaders of the communist parties of Eastern Europe.

In 1937-1945 - Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. On June 22, 1941, he was put at the head of the "leading troika" of the ECCI and headed all its current activities. In 1942 he was put at the head of the Fatherland Front of Bulgaria, created under the control of Moscow. On May 15, 1943, the Comintern was disbanded, and in June 1943 Dimitrov was appointed head of the department of international (foreign) policy of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b), which, thanks to Dimitrov, became the de facto successor to the cause of the Executive Committee of the Comintern.

Leader of Bulgaria

After the Soviet regime was established in Bulgaria, Dimitrov arrived home in November 1945. Since November 6, 1946 - Chairman of the Council of Ministers. From December 1947 until his death - General Secretary of the Central Committee of the BKP.
During the Dimitrov era, Bulgaria became highly dependent on the USSR and was sometimes even called the “seventeenth republic Soviet Union"(From 1940 to 1956 there were 16 republics in the USSR, including the Karelo-Finnish republic, which was transformed into the ASSR as part of the RSFSR in 1956).

Plan for the creation of the Bulgarian-Yugoslav Federation

Dimitrov actively supported the idea of creating a Bulgarian-Yugoslav federation, which after the break between I.V. Stalin and I. Broz Tito caused great discontent among the Soviet leadership. After the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks condemned Tito's position, Dimitrov nevertheless came out in support of the Yugoslav leader.

Death

Shortly before his death, in April 1949, Dimitrov arrived in Moscow with L.P. Beria, at the urgent request of Beria himself, who persuaded the Bulgarian leader to come for treatment. Dimitrov had cirrhosis of the liver, diabetes mellitus, chronic prostatitis. Two weeks after his arrival, Dimitrov's health condition deteriorates sharply. On July 2, 1949, Georgy Dimitrov dies in Barvikha near Moscow, where he received treatment for four months. Prominent Soviet doctors diagnosed grade II heart failure.

Dimitrov's body is delivered to Sofia, already opened and embalmed.
Bulgarian doctors have not had access to the body for over five years.

Peter Gylybov, who keeps Dimitrov's brain, was an employee of the Bulgarian mausoleum group from 1949 to 1990, until the burial of Georgy Dimitrov. During the reburial, Gylybov managed to take samples of Dimitrov's hair and, together with his colleagues, conduct an examination of the remains. The examination showed that the mercury content was increased in the hair samples. However, the version of the poisoning never became official. Moreover, mercury containing mercury is used in embalming in the form of a 1% solution.

Mausoleum

The mummified body of Georgy Dimitrov, in a sarcophagus, was placed in a specially built mausoleum. After the fall of the communist regime in Bulgaria, in 1990, the BSP party (the former Bulgarian Communist Party) at the request of relatives (according to official version) decided to reburial the body. The body of the former leader was taken out of the mausoleum secretly, late at night. On February 25, 1992, the Community Council of Sofia decided to demolish the mausoleum, as a structure ideologically and architecturally alien to the city center.

In August 1999, the building was blown up on the fifth attempt, the wreckage was removed by cars and disassembled for souvenirs. Today nothing reminds of the mausoleum in Sofia. Where he stood 42.695833, 23.326389 - a concrete platform.

Today, documentary footage of the mausoleum can be seen in the video hall of the Museum of Socialist Art in Sofia.

In secret Soviet correspondence for G. Dimitrov, the codename "Diamond" was used.

Memory

Cities renamed in honor of Georgy Dimitrov

Four cities are named in honor of Georgy Dimitrov: the city of Dimitrov ( Donetsk region, Ukraine), as well as three with the same name Dimitrovgrad: in Bulgaria (a newly built city), Serbia (formerly Tsaribrod) and Russia (formerly Melekess). All three Dimitrovgrad still bear these names.

Streets, avenues and avenues renamed in honor of Georgy Dimitrov

In Kiev, during his lifetime in 1938, the former Delovaya Street was named after Dimitrov. In 1977, an annotation board was installed on the facade of house No. 7 (bronze, granite, bas-relief; sculptor A. N. Skoblikov, architect A. F. Ignaschenko).
In Moscow, in honor of Dimitrov, after his death in 1956, one of the central streets, Bolshaya Yakimanka, was renamed, which was returned to its original name in 1990.
In St. Petersburg, a new street in the Kupchino area was named after Dimitrov in 1974, later a monument was erected in the park opposite the Chaika cinema.
In Ulyanovsk. Street in the Upper Terrace District
In Samara, a street in Promyshlennoe and Kirovsky districts, stretching for more than 3 kilometers, is named after Dimitrov, and a memorial plaque was installed on the facade of the house in which he lived and worked in 1941 (the current address is Shostakovich Street b. Rabochaya d. 5; Chapaeva square).
In the village of Stepnoye, Saratov region, a street is named in his honor, which is more than three kilometers long and runs from the entrance to the village along the park, near which there is a monument to G. Dimitrov, as a sign of the eternal friendship of the two peoples and gratitude to the Bulgarian builders.
In Novosibirsk, an avenue in the Zheleznodorozhny district of the city and one of the road bridges across the Ob are named in honor of Dimitrov.
In Bryansk there is a street named after Dimitrova, located in the Volodarsky district of the city.
In Izhevsk there is a street named after Dimitrova, located in the Industrial area of the city. Renamed in 1957 from Voroshilov Street.
In Kaluga, on the right bank of the Oka River, Georgiy Dimitrov Street is named.
In the city of Kaliningrad, one of the central streets is named in honor of Dimitrov.
There is Dimitrov street in Kostroma.
In the city of Krasnogorsk, a street is named in honor of Georgy Dimitrov.
In the city of Kursk, one of the streets is named after him.
In the city of Mogilev (Republic of Belarus), one of the avenues is named after Georgy Dimitrov.
In the city of Gomel (Republic of Belarus), one of the streets is named after Georgy Dimitrov.
In the city of Saransk, one of the streets is named after him.
In the city of Odessa, one of the avenues was named after him.
In Voronezh, one of the large streets in the Levoberezhny district of the city is named after G. Dimitrov.
In Lugansk (Ukraine) there is a street and a quarter named after G. Dimitrov.
In the city of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, one of the central thoroughfares (avenue # 114) bears the name of G. Dimitrov.
In the city of Kherson (Ukraine), which is twinned with the Bulgarian city of Shumen, the central street of the Shumensky microdistrict is named after G. Dimitrov.
In the city of Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryatia, a street is named after Dimitrov.
In the city of Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk region, a prospect in the western part of the city is named after Dimitrov.
In Zheleznogorsk (Kursk region), a street is named after Georgy Dimitrov.
In Abakan, Khakassia, one of the streets is named after Georgy Dimitrov.
In the city of Rybinsk (Yaroslavl region), one of the streets is named after Dimitrov.
In the village of Tvarditsa, Republic of Moldova, one of the streets is named after Dimitrov
In Novodvinsk, Arkhangelsk region, one of the first streets was named after Dimitrov, since the city was built by the efforts of Bulgarian workers. Also, a bust of Georgy Mikhailovich was erected in the city.
In Barnaul, one of the streets in the central part of the city bears the name of Georgy Dimitrov (it crosses the main street of the city - Lenin Avenue). Administration building Altai Territory is located on the section of Lenin Avenue between Dimitrov Street and Molodezhnaya Street. Also on the street. Dimitrov, one of the buildings of AltSU and building "B" of AltSTU are located.
In the village of Chernomorskoe (Crimea), one of the micro-districts is named Bulgarian and bears the name of Dimitrov. The microdistrict was built by Bulgarian builders under an interstate cooperation program with Bulgaria. There is a memorial plaque on the house number 6.
In the city of Temirtau, Republic of Kazakhstan, one of the streets is named in honor of Dimitrov.

Miscellaneous

In honor of Dimitrov, the Order of George Dimitrov of the People's Republic of Bulgaria was established. Leonid Brezhnev was awarded this order in Sofia.
In Magnitogorsk there is the village of Dimitrova.
In Taganrog, the aircraft building plant was called the Dimitrov Plant.

Monuments

In Moscow, on B. Yakimanka Street, a monument to G. Dimitrov is erected.
In Yaroslavl, opposite the Balkanskaya Zvezda tobacco factory, at the intersection of Pobeda Street and Oktyabrya Avenue, in 1985, a monument was erected.
In Vladikavkaz, on Lenin Street, a monument to Georgy Dimitrov is erected.
In the city of Cotonou, Benin, the giant statue of G. Dimitrov still stands on one of the main streets.
In the village

	Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the NRB
23 november - 2 july

Predecessor Kimon Georgiev Successor Vasil Kolarov

	Head of the International Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b)
December 27, 1943 - December 29, 1945

Predecessor post established Successor Mikhail Suslov

	General Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Communist International
1935 year - May 15, 1943

Predecessor post established Successor post abolished Birth June 18(1882-06-18 )
Kovachevtsi (now Pernik region), Principality of Bulgaria Death 2 july(1949-07-02 ) (67 years old)
Barvikha, Moscow region, USSR Burial place

Central cemetery

Spouse Lyuba Ivoshevich(1882-1933); Rose Fleischmann (18 ?? - 1949) Children Mitya (1936-1943) The consignment Bkp Awards Media files at Wikimedia Commons

Dimitrov was called the "Bulgarian Lenin" and the leader of the Bulgarian people. After his death, a mausoleum was built in Sofia like Lenin's.

Biography

In the summer of 1906, he was one of the leaders of the Pernik strike.

Since 1909 - a member of the Central Committee of the MRBM, which in 1919 was transformed into the Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP). In 1909-1923 - Secretary of the General Workers' Trade Union, organizer of strikes. In 1913-1923 - Member of the Bulgarian Parliament. In 1921 he took part in the work of the III Congress of the Comintern and in the same year was elected a member of the Central Council of the Profintern. In September 1923 - one of the leaders of the armed uprising against the Tsankov government in Bulgaria. After the failure of the attempt to seize power, he fled with V. Kolarov and other agents of the Comintern to Yugoslavia, then lived in the USSR. For participation in an armed rebellion, he was sentenced to death in absentia.

Comintern agent in Germany

In the fall of 1929 he moved to Germany. Lived incognito in Berlin. He actively participated in the activities of the Comintern, conducted communist propaganda. In secret Soviet correspondence for G. Dimitrov, the codename "Diamond" was used.

He was arrested by the Nazis on charges of involvement in the burning of the Reichstag on February 27, 1933, but was acquitted at the Leipzig trial in September-December 1933, as he proved an alibi. During the trial, Dimitrov built his defense in such a way that he turned from the accused into the accuser of the Nazis. Dimitrov's speech at the Leipzig trial later served as a model for communists' appearances before the courts in many countries: Toivo Antikainen, who was called "Northern Dimitrov", in Finland; Nikos Beloyanis in Greece, Brama Fishara in South Africa. Dimitrov was fluent in German and his speeches at the trial were widely used in anti-Nazi propaganda, and Dimitrov himself and his associates Popov and Tanev were granted Soviet citizenship, and the USSR demanded its extradition.

Leader of the Comintern

On February 27, 1934, he arrived in the USSR, where he was granted Soviet citizenship. His first elective position in the USSR was the seat of a deputy of the Leningrad City Council, who at that time was located in Smolny, and where Dimitrov was elected immediately upon arrival in the country.

At the end of April 1934 he was elected a member of the Political Commission of the Executive Committee of the Comintern (ECCI) and appointed head of the Central European Secretariat of the Comintern. Thus, in the 1930s, Dimitrov, along with Ernst Thälmann and Dolores Ibarruri, became one of the leaders of the international communist movement. At the end of May 1934, in connection with the upcoming VII Congress of the Comintern, Dimitrov was appointed speaker on the most important item on the agenda: the offensive of fascism and the tasks of the Comintern in the struggle for the unity of the working class. In 1935 he was elected Secretary General of the ECCI.

Plan for the creation of the Bulgarian-Yugoslav Federation

Dimitrov actively supported the idea of creating a Bulgarian-Yugoslav federation, which, after the breakup of I.V. Stalin and J. Broz Tito caused great discontent among the Soviet leadership. After condemning the position of Tito, the Central Committee of the CPSU (b), Dimitrov spoke in support of the Yugoslav leader. However, Tito and Dimitrov had serious disagreements on the Macedonian issue. Tito insisted on the recognition of the Macedonians as an independent nation, and Dimitrov considered them a sub-ethnos of the Bulgarian people.

Death

In April 1949, Dimitrov came to Moscow for treatment. He suffered from cirrhosis of the liver, diabetes, chronic prostatitis. Two weeks after his arrival, Dimitrov's health condition deteriorated sharply. On July 2, 1949, Georgy Dimitrov died in Barvikha, near Moscow, where he was undergoing treatment. Prominent Soviet doctors diagnosed grade II heart failure. Dimitrov's body was returned to Sofia, opened and embalmed.

Peter Gylybov, who kept Dimitrov's brain, was an employee of the Bulgarian mausoleum group from 1949 to 1990, until the burial of Georgy Dimitrov. During the reburial, Gylybov managed to take samples of Dimitrov's hair and, together with his colleagues, conduct an examination of the remains. Studies have shown that there was an increase in mercury in the hair samples. However, the version of the poisoning never became official.

Mausoleum

The embalmed body of Georgy Dimitrov in the sarcophagus was placed in a specially built mausoleum. After the fall of the communist regime in Bulgaria, in 1990, the BSP party (the former Bulgarian Communist Party), at the request of relatives, according to the official version, decided to reburial the body.

After cremation, the ashes of Georgy Dimitrov were buried in the Central Cemetery of Sofia in the grave of his mother (P22, 42.716678 N, 23.338698 E).

Awards

Memory

Cities renamed in honor of Georgy Dimitrov

Five cities were named in honor of Georgy Dimitrov:

the city of Dimitrovo (now Pernik, Bulgaria).
the city of Dimitrov (now Mirnograd, Donetsk region, Ukraine).
Dimitrovgrad (town in Bulgaria, newly built town)
Dimitrovgrad (city in Serbia, formerly Tsaribrod).
Dimitrovgrad (Russia, former Melekess, Ulyanovsk region).

Streets, avenues and avenues renamed in honor of Georgy Dimitrov

In Abakan, Khakassia, one of the streets is named after Georgy Dimitrov.
In Astrakhan, one of the streets in the Trusovsky district is named after Georgy Dimitrov (microdistrict No. 6 not far from the ACCC).
In Barnaul, one of the streets in the central part of the city bears the name of Georgy Dimitrov (it crosses the main street of the city - Lenin Avenue). The Altai Territory Administration building is located on the section of Lenin Avenue between Dimitrov Street and Molodezhnaya Street. Also on the street. Dimitrov, one of the buildings of AltSU and buildings "A", "B", "V", "G" is located, as well as a new building of AltSTU named after I.I.Polzunov.
In Dnepropetrovsk, one of the streets was named in his honor - renamed.
In Sevastopol, one of the streets is named after him.
In Baku (Azerbaijan) one of the streets was called Dimitrov.
In Berdichev (Ukraine) one of the streets was called Dimitrov - it was renamed.
In Bryansk there is a street named after Dimitrova, located in the Volodarsky district of the city.
In Birobidzhan, one of the central streets is called Dimitrov.
In the city of Vitebsk
In the city of Volgograd, one of the streets is named after Dimitrov.
In Vorkuta, one of the streets is named after Dimitrov.
In Voronezh, one of the large streets in the Levoberezhny district of the city is named after G. Dimitrov.
In Vladikavkaz, one of the streets bears his name
In Vyborg, one of the streets is named after Dimitrov.
In the city of Gomel (Belarus), one of the streets is named after Georgy Dimitrov.
In the city of Horlivka, Donetsk region (Ukraine), there is Dimitrov Boulevard.
In the city of Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk region, a prospect in the western part of the city is named after Dimitrov.
In Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine), one of the streets of the Kirovsky district was named in honor of Dimitrov - it was renamed.
There is a street in Yekaterinburg named after Dimitrov.
In the city of Yerevan, Republic of Armenia, a street was named after Dimitrov - renamed (in Azatamartikneri ave.).
In Zheleznogorsk (Kursk region), a street is named after Georgy Dimitrov.
In Izhevsk there is a street named after Dimitrova, located in the Oktyabrsky district of the city. Renamed in 1957 from Voroshilov Street.
In the city of Yoshkar-Ola, one of the streets in the north-west of the city is named after Dimitrov.
In the city of Irkutsk in the Pravoberezhny district there is a Dimitrov passage
In the city of Kaliningrad, one of the central streets is named in honor of Dimitrov.
In Kaluga, on the right bank of the Oka River, Georgiy Dimitrov Street is named.
In with. Kairaklia, south of Moldova, st. Dimitrov.
In Kiev, during his lifetime in 1938, the former Delovaya Street was named after Dimitrov. In 1977, an annotation board was installed on the facade of house No. 7 (bronze, granite, bas-relief; sculptor A. N. Skoblikov, architect A. F. Ignaschenko). In November 2014, the street was returned to its historical name - Delovaya.
There is Dimitrov street in Komsomolsk-on-Amur
There is Dimitrov street in Kostroma.
In the city of Kramatorsk, one of the streets in the Novy Svet district (one of the central districts of the private sector) was named after Georgiy Dimitrov - it was renamed.
In the city of Krasnogorsk, a street is named in honor of Georgy Dimitrov.
In the city of Krasnodar, Artelnaya street in 1980 was renamed into G. Dimitrov street. The square in front of the Kosmos cinema, on which the monument to G. Dimitrov was erected, was also named after him, the cinema was renamed into Bulgaria.
There is Dimitrov Street in the city of Krasnoyarsk. The garage array located on it is called "Dimitrovsky"
In the city of Kryvyi Rih (Dnepropetrovsk region, Ukraine), one of the streets was named after Georgiy Dimitrov - it was renamed.
In the resort town of Kislovodsk there is a sanatorium named after Georgiy Dimitrov.
In the city of Kursk
In Lugansk (Ukraine) there is a street and a quarter named after G. Dimitrov.
In the city of Malgobek, Republic of Ingushetia, one of the streets is named after Dimitrov
In the city of Maykop, the capital of Adygea, a street is named after Dimitrov.
In the city of Mogilev (Belarus), one of the avenues is named after Georgy Dimitrov (in 1982).
In Minsk, a street is named in honor of Georgy Dimitrov.
In Moscow, in honor of Dimitrov, after his death in 1956, one of the central streets, Bolshaya Yakimanka, was renamed, which was returned to its original name in 1992.
In the city of Novodvinsk, Arkhangelsk region, one of the first streets was named in honor of Dimitrov, since the city was built by the efforts of Bulgarian workers. Also, a bust of Georgy Mikhailovich was erected in the city.
In Novosibirsk, an avenue in the Zheleznodorozhny district of the city and one of the road bridges across the Ob are named in honor of Dimitrov.
In Omsk, one of the streets is named after Dimitrov.
In Odessa - Dimitrov Avenue (since 1982, the former part of Lvov Street). Until 1982, one of the streets on Tairov was named in honor of Dimitrov - it was renamed. Nowadays Academician Glushko Avenue.
In the city of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, one of the central thoroughfares (avenue # 114) bears the name of G. Dimitrov.
In the city of Rybinsk (Yaroslavl region), one of the streets is named after Dimitrov.
In the city of Ryazan, a square is named in honor of Dimitrov. It houses the Lovech hotel, named after the Bulgarian sister city of Ryazan, as well as the monument of Soviet-Bulgarian friendship, opened in 1974.
In the city of Saransk, one of the streets is named after him.
In Samara, a street in Promyshlennoe and Kirovsky districts was named after Dimitrov, stretching for more than 3 kilometers, and a memorial plaque was installed on the facade of the house in which he lived and worked in 1941 (the current address is Shostakovich Street b. Working d. 5; pl. Chapaeva).
In St. Petersburg, a new street in the Kupchino area was named after Dimitrov in 1974, later a monument was erected in the park opposite the Chaika cinema.
The city of Serov also has a Dimitrov street.
In the city of Stary Oskol there is Dimitrov street.
In the city of Syktyvkar, one of the streets is named after G. Dimitrov. A bust of Georgy Mikhailovich was erected on the street that bears his name.
In the city of Tver, Tver region, one of the streets is named in honor of Georgy Dimitrov.
In the city of Temirtau, the Republic of Kazakhstan in 1957, one of the streets was named in honor of Dimitrov, where a monument was erected in 1960.
In the city of Ulan-Ude, the Republic of Buryatia, a street is named after Dimitrov.
In Ulyanovsk, a street in the Upper Terrace residential area is named after Dimitrov.
In the city of Ufa, one of the streets in the Ordzhonikidze district is named after G. Dimitrov.
In the city of Kherson (Ukraine), which is twinned with the Bulgarian city of Shumen, the central street of the Shumensky microdistrict was named after G. Dimitrov - it was renamed.
In the village of Stepnoye (Saratov region), a street is named in his honor and a monument to G. Dimitrov is located, as a sign of the eternal friendship of the two peoples and gratitude to the Bulgarian builders.
In the village of Tvarditsa, Republic of Moldova, one of the streets is named after Dimitrov.
In the village of Chernomorskoe (Crimea), one of the micro-districts is named Bulgarian and bears the name of Dimitrov. The microdistrict was built by Bulgarian builders under an interstate cooperation program with Bulgaria. There is a memorial plaque on the house number 6.
In the city of Pavlodar, Republic of Kazakhstan, one of the streets is named after Dimitrov.
In the city of Ust-Ilimsk (Irkutsk region), one of the streets is named in honor of Dimitrov
In the city of Dimitrov, Ukraine, Donetsk region, one of the streets was named after G.M.Dimitrov - both the city and the street were renamed
In the city of Sarov, one of the streets is named after Dimitrov.
In the city of Yanaul, Republic of Bashkortostan, one of the streets is named after Dimitrov.
In the town of Sholokhovsky, Belokalitvinsky district, Rostov region, one of the central streets is named in honor of Dimitrov, on which a bust of G.M. Dimitrova
In the microdistrict Komsomolsky, Donskoy, Tula region, the longest street is named in honor of Dimitrov.

Miscellaneous

Monuments

Belarus

Memorial plaque with a bas-relief of GM Dimitrov, located on the wall of house number 33, located on Dimitrov Avenue in the city of Mogilev.

Born June 18, 1882 in the village of Kovachevtsi, Pernik district. Parents: artisan Dimitar Mikhailov and Parashkeva Doseva. From 1894 he worked as a typesetter in a printing house. Since 1901, secretary of the trade union of printers (Sofia). In 1902 he joined the Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party (BRSD), and in 1903, when the party split, he entered its Marxist part, which took shape as an independent party BRSDP (close socialists). Since 1909 he has been a member of the Central Committee of the IRBM (close socialists), which in 1919 was transformed into the Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP). In 1905-1923. member of the leadership (secretary from 1909) of the General Workers 'Trade Union (General Workers' Syndical Union - OSS), took an active part in organizing major protests of the Bulgarian proletariat (strikes of miners in Pernik in 1906 and 1911, workers of the match factory in Kostenets in 1909, railway workers in 1919 -20, etc.).

Since August 1904, Rabotniki Vestnik, the central party organ of the BRSDP, also becomes the organ of the OSS. The editor of his "Syndical Page" was Georgy Dimitrov. He is also the editor of the "Syndical Bulletin" (1920-1921) and the organ of the OSS Syndical Committee "Bulletin of the General Workers' Syndical Union in Bulgaria". Individual syndicates, which were part of the OSS, also published their own newspapers, for example: "Zheleznodorozhnik", "Uchitelskaya Iskra", "Pechatar", "Voice of the Waiter" and many others.
In 1913-1923. Member of the Bulgarian Parliament.

In 1921 Dimitrov took part in the work of the 3rd Congress of the Comintern, where he met with Lenin. In the same year he was elected a member of the Central Council of the Profintern. On September 6, 1923, under the editorship of Georgy Dimitrov, the newspaper Trud, the weekly organ of the ORSS, was published. In September 1923, together with Vasil Kolarov, he led an anti-fascist armed uprising in Bulgaria, after the suppression of which he emigrated abroad. He was sentenced to death in absentia for organizing an anti-government rebellion. In exile, he lived in various European countries under false names. For a short time he lived in Yugoslavia, then, in October 1923, he left for Vienna. He was a member of the Foreign Bureau of the BKP, and on December 17, 1923 he was elected secretary of the Presidium of the Balkan Communist Federation (BKF). In the spring of 1924, Dimitrov became the representative of the ECCI in the Austrian Communist Party. He visited Moscow twice that year.

In June-July 1924, at the V Congress of the Comintern, he was elected a member of the ECCI, and at the III Congress of the Profintern, he was again included in the Executive Bureau of Profintren.
Since 1925 - a leader of the Comintern, a member of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Comintern, the Political Secretariat of the ECCI. In March and June 1926 he was again in Moscow. At the end of January 1927, Dimitrov left for Vienna, where he became the head of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the BKP (TS). From the beginning of 1929, Berlin became the headquarters of the BKP and BKF bodies, in which Dimitrov worked. There he held positions:
- Member of the Foreign Bureau of the Central Committee of the BKP;
- Member of the Executive Bureau of the BCF (established at the end of January 1929);
- Head of the Western European Bureau of the Comintern (ZEB - WEB).
Dimitrov and the ZEB led by him had tasks:
- to carry out instructions and monitor the implementation of the general directives of the governing bodies of the Comintern (ECCI);
- to coordinate the activities of 25 European Communist Parties and many mass international organizations;
- contribute to their strengthening and educate them in the spirit of mutual assistance and solidarity;
- to strengthen close ties between the Communist Parties and the governing bodies of the Comintern.

As the leader of ZEB, Dimitrov had to travel frequently. According to the documents, he is a Swiss citizen Rudolf Gediger. His wife, Luba Ivoshevich, is recorded in his passport under the name Louise Gediger.

The prominent Soviet party leader A. Kuusinen recalled: “Dimitrov worked in various departments of the Comintern, but every time he had to be removed: he was only interested in drink and women. When indignation and complaints reached the limit, he was transferred somewhere. The Comintern simply refused to work with him ... Otto told me, laughing: “Nobody wants to get involved with Dimitrov. Where to put it? Better, probably, to send back to the Balkans. "And they sent them. Together with two other students of the Lenin school - Vasil Tanev and Blagoy Popov. A few years later they were transferred to Berlin."

Soon after the burning of the Reichstag on February 27, 1933, on March 9, Dimitrov, together with Blagoy Popov and Vasil Tanev, were arrested at the Bayernhof restaurant, after being denounced by the waiter Helmer. Soon they appeared before the court at the Leipzig trial organized by the fascists in September-December 1933. Despite all attempts to falsify evidence and rig facts, the court had to acquit Dimitrov. His dramatic confrontation at the trial with Hermann Goering spread throughout the world. His speeches were widely used by communist propaganda, and Dimitrov himself was granted Soviet citizenship. According to A. Kuusinen, Dimitrov's famous speech at the trial was composed by O. Kuusinen. All three left for the USSR, where they received Soviet citizenship.

In 1934 he was elected a deputy of the Leningrad City Council. From the second half of 1934 Dimitrov lived and worked in Moscow. In 1935 he was elected general secretary of the Executive Committee of the Comintern. Dimitrov met with Stalin on several occasions. He kept a diary in which he recorded the content of all his conversations. On February 11, 1937, Stalin said to Dimitrov: "All of you there, in the Comintern, are working into the hands of the enemy." On November 7, 1937, at a feast organized by Voroshilov on the occasion of the holiday, Stalin was too frank:
“The Russian tsars did a lot of bad things. They plundered and enslaved the people. They waged wars and seized lands in the interests of the landowners. But they did one good deed, creating a huge power - up to Kamchatka. We inherited this power. And for the first time we have , the Bolsheviks, rallied it as a single and indivisible power ... Therefore, everyone who tries to destroy the unity of this socialist power, who seeks to tear away separate parts and nationalities from it, is the enemy, the sworn enemy of the state and the peoples of the USSR. And we will destroy every such enemy, even if he is an old Bolshevik, we will destroy his entire clan, his family. We will mercilessly destroy those who by their actions and thoughts (yes, thoughts) encroach on the unity of the socialist state. For the complete destruction of all enemies - them and their kind ! "

Three years later, the situation repeated itself. Stalin in November 1940 attacked his interlocutors with "comradely criticism". Dimitrov wrote:
“Everyone was about to leave when Joseph Vissarionovich took a glass and asked to speak. History, he said, spoiled us. We achieved many successes relatively easily. And this caused complacency, dangerous complacency in many. excellent conditions. They think that once among the workers and peasants, since their hands are in calluses, they can do everything, and they no longer need to learn and work on themselves. And by the way, they remain absolute fools. "

On September 7, 1939, he wrote down the following words of Stalin:
“We would not mind if the imperialist powers grappled in a good fight and weakened each other ... Hitler, unwittingly and unwillingly, would weaken and undermine the capitalist system. We can maneuver, push one side against the other, so that they beat each other as best as possible. "

Unfortunately, these words of Stalin can be attributed to the relations of the communist parties among themselves, especially their leaders to each other. One of the most dramatic chapters in the history of the world communist movement is the Stalinist repressions that fell on foreign communists, social democrats, and representatives of other anti-fascist forces in the 1930s.
Repressions were subjected to:

leaders of the Yugoslav Communist Party M. Gorkich, M. Filippovich, V. Chopich (in Spain he commanded the 15th Lincoln International Brigade)
leaders of the German Communist Party H. Eberlein, G. Remmele, G. Neumann, F. Schulte, G. Kippenberger
leaders of the Polish Communist Party E. Pruchniak, J. Pashin, Yu. Lensky, M. Kossutskaya
leaders of the Hungarian Communist Party B. Kun, F. Bayaki, D. Bocanyi, I. Kelen, S. Sabodas, F. Karikas, L. Gavreau (hero civil war, Chevalier of two Orders of the Red Banner)
head of the Swiss Communist Party F. Platen (organized Lenin's visit to Russia in the spring of 1917)
leaders of the Bulgarian Communist Party R. Avramov (the first of the Bulgarians to be awarded the Order of Lenin), H. Rakovsky (member of the Central Committee of the RCP (b)), B. Stomonyakov (Deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR).
leaders of the Finnish Communist Party G. Rovio, A. Shotman, E. Gylling (Lenin's ally, headed the Karelian Commune), A. Kuusinen (wife of O. Kuusinen), K. Manner (first General Secretary of the Communist Party of Finland)

Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece A. Kantas, one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Iran A. Sultan-zade, leader of the Communist Party of India G. Luhani, one of the founders of the Communist Party of Romania A. Dobrojanu-Geria was arrested and shot.

In the memoirs of a veteran of the Italian Communist Party A. Roasio, it is said that more than a hundred Italian communists who lived in the USSR in the 30s were arrested and sent to camps, where living conditions were fatal for them.

The leaders and activists of the communist parties of Latvia (almost all the red "Latvian arrows" - "midwives of the revolution", as Lenin called them), Lithuania, Estonia, Western Ukraine and Western Belarus (even before their entry into the USSR) were subjected to massive repressions.

They say that Dimitrov constantly stood up for the repressed. Employees of the ECCI apparatus, representatives of the Communist Parties drew up lists of communists arrested in the USSR for Dimitrov, supplying them with characteristics that could help liberate these people. Dimitrov sent many such lists with a petition for their release to Stalin, to the organs of the NKVD, to the prosecutor's office, to the secretaries of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.

For some time, a propaganda department also worked at the executive committee of the Comintern. One of the most notorious cases of propagandists was the operation carried out by the German Comintern Maria Osten, who, during a period of especially bad relations between Stalin and Hitler, brought a ten-year-old German boy Hubert Losté to the USSR from Germany and wrote the then sensational book "Hubert in Wonderland", where the German boy never ceased to boisterously rejoice at everything he saw in the USSR, cursing at the same time everything that he left in his homeland. The preface to this book was written by Georgy Dimitrov himself. This book was read aloud in schools and pioneer homes, on the radio, and excerpts were published in newspapers. The photograph of Hubert himself took an honorable place among the other "pioneer heroes" next to the photograph of Pavlik Morozov. After the signing of the pact in 1939, the whole operation lost its meaning. Maria Osten was shot as a "German spy", and the unfortunate Hubert Losté was exiled to "places not so distant."

On June 22, 1941, he was put at the head of the ECCI, heading all activities. In 1942 he became the leader of the pro-Soviet Fatherland Front of Bulgaria, which aimed to establish a communist regime in Bulgaria. On July 17, 1942, the Fatherland Front program developed by Dimitrov was officially proclaimed. It provided for the breakdown of the alliance with Germany by Bulgaria, the liberation of the country from the German fascist invaders, democratization public life and the establishment of close ties with the USSR. The idea of establishing a "Marxist government" in Bulgaria exposed the internal party struggle.

After the First World War, the party was led by Vasil Kolarov and Georgy Dimitrov. In the period 1922-1924, Kolarov was the general secretary of the Comintern, and after the unsuccessful rebellion of the Bulgarian communists in September 1923, he, Dimitrov and other communist leaders left for the USSR, where they established the foreign bureau of the BKP.

Thinned as a result of the rebellion and outlawed in 1924, the BKP went through a period of struggle between the overseas bureau and the so-called. "Leftist sectarians" in Bulgaria itself; the number of its members dropped from 38 thousand to 3 thousand. After Dimitrov was elected general secretary of the Comintern in 1935, the foreign bureau of the BKP won this struggle, and the triumvirate headed by Traicho Kostov returned to Bulgaria to clear the ranks of the BKP. Thus, Dimitrov and Kolarov in Moscow and Kostov in Bulgaria became party leaders.

On May 15, 1943, Dimitrov dissolved the Comintern and in June 1943 was appointed head. Department of International Information of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b), for which the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR awarded Dimitrov in 1945 the Order of Lenin.

The victory of the Red Army at Stalingrad and its advance to the west contributed significantly to the development of the Resistance movement in Bulgaria. In 1943 the Bulgarian Workers' Party (BRP) created a united People's Liberation Insurrectionary Army. The Resistance Movement was led by the communists, but also included representatives of other parties - the left wing of the agrarians, socialists, "Link", the Union of Officers and other opponents of the alliance with Germany. All these actions fit into the program of the Fatherland Front proclaimed by Dimitrov.

In September 1944, when the Red Army reached the borders of Bulgaria, about 30 thousand partisans took part in the Resistance movement. On September 8-9, 1944, the leaders of the Resistance movement formed the government of the Fatherland Front, headed by Kimon Georgiev, and on October 28, 1944, an armistice was signed in Moscow.

The communists occupied key positions of the ministers of the interior and justice in the government of the Fatherland Front and gradually ousted all their opponents.

Detachments of "people's militia" were organized under the leadership of the Minister of Internal Affairs, and partisan leader Todor Zhivkov organized mass raids that ended in special "people's tribunals" (what a familiar word).

According to official figures, in 1945 more than 2,800 people were executed and 7,000 people were imprisoned. Although the Bulgarian army initially remained under the leadership of the purely military minister Damian Velchev, key positions in the army were received by persons who served in the Red Army or fought in international brigades in Spain. The Bulgarian army, subordinate to the Soviet command, took part in operations against German troops in Yugoslavia, Hungary and Austria.

The tough course of the communists in the struggle for power destroyed the coalition of the Fatherland Front. The first sign of the conflict was the resignation of the leader of the BZNS G.M. Dimitrov, who emigrated to the United States. In 1945-1946, the split within the Fatherland Front deepened, and the leader of the BZNS, Nikola Petkov, led the opposition, which included socialists and representatives of other parties. After a referendum on September 15, 1946, Bulgaria was proclaimed the "People's Republic". In the October 27 elections to the Great People's Assembly, which was supposed to draft a new constitution, the opposition won about 30% of the vote and won 99 out of 465 seats, the communists won 277 seats. Dimitrov returned to Bulgaria and on November 6, 1946 headed the Bulgarian government. In December 1948, Dimitrov became General Secretary of the Communist Party of Bulgaria.

The federation of the two South Slavic peoples of Bulgaria and Yugoslavia has for many decades been the dream of liberals, socialists and communists. Both Dimitrov and Tito were ardent supporters of the idea of federation; even during the war, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia studied ways to create a Bulgarian-Yugoslav core, to which other Balkan countries were to join. However, Bulgaria's insistence on parity with Yugoslavia, as well as the Yugoslav proposal for Bulgaria to join the Yugoslav Federation as a seventh member, led in 1944-1945. to the disruption of the negotiation process. Dimitrov's "Diary" contains the following entries on this account:
"September 27, 1944. Second conversation with Tito. We talked for a long time. We came to an agreement on issues affecting the Bulgarian and Yugoslav Communist Parties, as well as on the main points of relations between the new Yugoslavia and the new Bulgaria. There is, of course, complete mutual understanding between us, but difficulties are coming. while pursuing the intended line of creating an alliance between Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, a federation of the South Slavs (consisting of Bulgarians, Macedonians, Serbs, Croats, Montenegrins, Slovenes), stretching from the Adriatic to the Black Sea. Difficulties will be, especially from the British and their Great Greek and Great Serbs agents ".

Negotiations resumed in August 1947. An agreement was signed to start the process of unification - the creation of a customs union, the lifting of border restrictions and the promotion of cultural ties between Bulgarian Macedonia and the Macedonian Republic of Yugoslavia.

The peace treaty, which entered into force on October 2, 1947, recognized the borders as of January 1, 1941, i.e. secured the annexation of Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria, but rejected its claims to the Greek and Yugoslav territories, as well as the claims of Greece to the Bulgarian lands. According to the agreement, Bulgaria had to pay reparations in the amount of 45 million dollars in favor of Greece and 25 million dollars - in favor of Yugoslavia.

On February 10, 1948, the leaders of the three countries signed the "Protocol on Mutual Consultations" in the Kremlin. Dimitrov added this document to his diary, stamping it with the "Strictly Secret" stamp. Stalin: "The Yugoslavs, apparently, are afraid that we will take Albania from them. You must take Albania, but - wisely ..." Stalin: "You should not delay the unification of the three countries - Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania. the national assemblies made a decision and instructed the governments to start unification negotiations. Better to start with a political unification and then send troops to Albania - then this cannot serve as a pretext for an attack ... If you arrange unification through the national assemblies, everything will be all right. all questions. There is a great deal of similarity between the Bulgarians and the Yugoslavs both in racial and domestic terms, and everyone will understand this union. And the Albanians will also benefit from the federation, since a united Albania will be created with an almost doubled population. "

After the elections and the signing of the peace treaty, Dimitrov considered it possible to start liquidating the opposition. Opposition leader Nikola Petkov was arrested and executed on 23 September 1947, despite numerous protests. Other opposition leaders were thrown into prisons, and all parties, with the exception of the BZNS part that wished to cooperate with the communists, were disbanded or included in the BRP (k). In Bulgaria itself, repressions against the Macedonians and supporters of an alliance with Yugoslavia, Protestant and Catholic communities and schools, as well as everyone who had contacts with Western countries, intensified. Trials were organized against Protestant priests who were convicted of spying for the United States and imprisoned; relations with the Vatican were severed, and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church was forced to remove the Patriarchal Exarch Stephen from his post.

After the liquidation of the opposition, the Great People's Assembly on December 4, 1947 adopted the so-called. Dimitrov's constitution, and Bulgaria was reorganized according to the Soviet model and came under the full control of the Kremlin, practically losing its independence, and began to turn into the "sixteenth republic of the USSR".

He died in Moscow on July 2, 1949 in Barvikha near Moscow from diabetes. The sarcophagus with the body of Dimitrov was installed in a specially built mausoleum in Sofia. After the fall of the communist regime in Bulgaria, his body was taken out of the mausoleum and buried in a Christian ritual by relatives and friends at the Central Sofia cemetery. In the summer of 1999, the Dimitrov Mausoleum was blown up three times within one week. The first explosion occurred on August 21, but the building, which resembled a cube faced with white marble, was only slightly warped. The second one, too, could not end it, and only the third explosion on August 29 turned what used to be the mausoleum of Georgy Dimitrov into ruins.

The death of Dimitrov in 1949, in the midst of the conflict between Stalin and Tito, provoked a crisis in the leadership of the Bulgarian Communist Party. A long-brewing conflict broke out between the repatriated communists who returned from the USSR after 1944 and the "local" communists.

Dimitrov was the main candidate for successor, but he opposed the Soviet policy of economic exploitation of the country. Stalin supported the candidacy of Dimitrov's son-in-law, Vylko Chervenkov, who spent most of his life in the USSR. In 1949, Chervenkov organized a trial against Kostov and his supporters, accusing them of conspiring with Tito and American diplomats to carry out a coup d'etat. Kostov was executed, Chervenkov became the head of the BKP, and in February 1950, immediately after the death of Kolarov, he also took over as prime minister.

Chervenkov acquired the reputation of the Bulgarian "little Stalin". Mass repression against the supporters of Kostov and Tito led to the expulsion of 92.5 thousand members from the party. A fierce propaganda campaign was launched to isolate Bulgaria from the "pernicious Western influence" and to fight against the "enemy encirclement." The USA and Great Britain were portrayed as imperialist aggressors, inciting Yugoslavia, Greece and Turkey against Bulgaria; Yugoslavia was called a renegade of socialism; the borders with these three neighboring countries were closed. In 1950, the need to deport 250 thousand Turks from Bulgaria was announced, and in 1951-1952 about 160 thousand of them were resettled to Turkey. To reinforce elements of Bulgarian nationalism in this campaign and gain the support of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, in 1953 she was given the status of patriarchy, which she lost in the 14th century during the capture of the country by the Ottoman Turks.

After Stalin's death in 1953, Chervenkov's position in Bulgaria began to weaken. The harbinger of changes was his resignation from the post of head of the BKP in March 1954. Todor Zhivkov became the first secretary of the BKP Central Committee. Chervenkov discovered a complete inability to adapt to the policy of de-Stalinization pursued in the USSR by N.S. Khrushchev, and in April 1956 was removed from the post of Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the NRB. The new regime tried to adapt to the changed situation in Moscow and to apply Khrushchev's ideas and policies to the Bulgarian realities. Following similar processes in the USSR, the process of liberalization began. So, in 1956 Kostov was posthumously rehabilitated.

June 18, 1882 - Georgy Dimitrov was born, leader of socialist Bulgaria (1946-49), head of the Comintern (1935-43), anti-fascist, accused by the Nazis of setting fire to the Reichstag and brilliantly shaming fascist justice during the famous Leipzig trial, a close friend and colleague I.V. Stalin.

Dimitrov Georgy Mikhailovich (1882-1949) - teacher and leader of the Bulgarian people, an outstanding figure in the international labor movement, a loyal ally of Lenin and Stalin. The whole history of the struggle of the working class of Bulgaria for its liberation is inextricably linked with the name of Dimitrov. “In the entire struggle of the working class,” said the address of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party to party members and the Bulgarian people in connection with the death of Dimitrov, “in the socialist communist movement in our country over the past 50 years there has not been a single significant event that was not connected with great luck and ebullient organizational and leadership activities of Comrade Georgy Dimitrov. "

In 1902, Dimitrov joined the Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party and actively joined the struggle against the reformists on the side of the revolutionary Marxist trend in the party, from which subsequently, after the victory of the Great October Revolution in Russia and the revolutionary upsurge in Bulgaria caused by it, the Bulgarian Communist Party grew ... Dimitrov was a consistent proletarian internationalist. He selflessly fought against the great Bulgarian chauvinism and nationalism, against the imperialist war. The Bulgarian reactionary government brutally persecuted Dimitrov, arrested him several times, imprisoned him, twice sentenced him to death. However, Dimitrov never stopped fighting for the interests of the working people.

In 1920, the Bulgarian communists sent Dimitrov as a delegate to the Congress of the Comintern.

In 1923, Dimitrov, together with Kolarov, led the September armed uprising, which played an important role in the growth of the class consciousness of the Bulgarian workers and peasants.

Dimitrov was a prominent figure in the international labor movement, one of the organizers of the international struggle against war and fascism, for peace and communism. He also actively worked on the Executive Committee of the Communist International. The fearlessness of the fighter and the talent of the tribune manifested itself with particular force in Dimitrov during the Leipzig trial in 1933, where Dimitrov exposed the fascist provocation, revealed to the whole world the bestial appearance of fascism. Dimitrov's courageous behavior at the Leipzig trial played an important role in mobilizing the forces of the working class and all working people to fight against war and fascism. Thanks to the intercession of the government of the Soviet Union and the revolutionary upsurge of the working people of the whole world, Dimitrov was torn from the bloody clutches of fascism and arrived in the USSR.

In Moscow, Dimitrov worked hard to rally the working people in the fight against fascism. In 1935 Dimitrov was elected General Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Comintern and remained unchanged in this post until the dissolution of the Comintern in 1943 G.M. Dimitrov worked out the questions of the strategy and tactics of the communists in the struggle against war and fascism. He fought for the creation and strengthening of a united front against imperialist reaction, did a great job of training and educating the leading cadres of the fraternal communist parties needed by the teachings of Marxism-Leninism.

During the Second World War, Dimitrov devoted all his efforts to mobilizing the masses to fight the Nazi invaders. He worked hard to organize the anti-fascist liberation movement abroad, in the countries occupied by the Nazis. He led the struggle of the Bulgarian patriots against fascism. For outstanding services in the struggle against fascism, Dimitrov was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1945.

When the Soviet Army, the liberating army, entered the territory of Bulgaria, the Bulgarian people, under the leadership of Dimitrov, overthrew the fascist regime and established the system of people's democracy. In November 1945, after 22 years of exile, Dimitrov returned to Bulgaria. Here he launched a vigorous activity, leading the entire work of the party, called for the struggle for peace, democracy and socialism. In the struggle for the construction of the Bulgarian people's democratic state, Dimitrov's great talent as a statesman manifested itself. Under the leadership of Dimitrov, a referendum on the state system and elections to the Great People's Assembly are being held. After a brilliant election victory, Dimitrov was unanimously elected Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Bulgaria. Under his leadership, a nationwide discussion of the new constitution is being developed and conducted.

With the adoption of the constitution and the nationalization of industry and banks, carried out almost simultaneously in Bulgaria, the people's democratic system was strengthened and took shape, which is a form of the dictatorship of the working class. Dimitrov directed the restoration and development of the national economy. With the fraternal assistance of the Soviet Union, the Bulgarian people, under the leadership of Dimitrov, achieved great success in raising the economy and culture of their country, in radically improving the well-being of the broad masses of the working people. In December 1948, the 5th Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party took place, which outlined a program for building the foundations of socialism in Bulgaria.

On July 2, 1949, the heart of the great son of the Bulgarian people, Georgy Mikhailovich Dimitrov, stopped beating.

Dimitrov was an outstanding and talented theoretician of Marxism-Leninism. He always called for being guided by the teachings of Marxism, the richest experience of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

"For the communist parties," he said, "there is a single theory as a guide to action - the theory of Marxism-Leninism, there is a single purposefulness in their policies, there is the great party of Lenin-Stalin, as the leading party of the international labor movement." He ardently defended the interest of proletarian internationalism, unswervingly fighting against all kinds of nationalism. In internationalism, he said, the communists see a guarantee of the successful struggle of the working class in each country for the victory of socialism. In his speeches on the international labor movement, the strategy and tactics of the communist parties in the struggle against imperialism, on the construction of a new people's democratic Bulgaria, etc. Dimitrov creatively applied dialectical and historical materialism, gave vivid examples of a dialectical approach to reality.

In a letter to the editorial board of Philosophical Thought, Dimitrov pointed out that the study of philosophical works more and more convinced him “of the absolute necessity of a complete combination of practice with theory, since practice without theory is blind, and theory without practice is fruitless. This is especially important for the working class, which faces the historical task of not only correctly and scientifically explaining what exists, but also radically changing this existing for its own benefit, for the benefit of its people. Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary practice, as the great Lenin emphasized many times and, along with him, the successor of his work - the great Stalin. "

Five cities are named in honor of Georgy Dimitrov: the city of Dimitrovo (now Pernik, Bulgaria), the city of Dimitrov (Donetsk), as well as three with the same name: Dimitrovgrad (a city in Bulgaria, a newly built city), Dimitrovgrad (a city in Serbia, formerly Tsaribrod) and Dimitrovgrad (Russia, former Melekess, Ulyanovsk region). Four of these five cities still bear names after Dimitrov. Hundreds of streets around the world are named after the outstanding revolutionary, monuments have been erected to him, one of which is located in the African country of Benin.

In honor of Dimitrov, the Order of George Dimitrov of the People's Republic of Bulgaria was established. Leonid Brezhnev was awarded this order in Sofia.