Dobri Jurov

Dobri Jurov

Dobri Dschurow (born January 5, 1916 in Vrabevo , Lovech Oblast , † June 17, 2002 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian politician .

Life

Jurov joined the Bulgarian Communist Party in 1938 . In June 1942 he joined the partisan movement and from 1943 was commander of the Chavdar partisan brigade . In 1942 his daughter, the future art historian Aksinija Džurova, was born. He was a member of the Central Committee from 1962 and of the Party's Politburo from 1977 .

Dschurow was Deputy Minister of Defense of Bulgaria from 1956 and then from 1962 to November 1990 . His successor in office was Jordan Mutaftschiew . Djurov shaped Bulgaria's defense policy for almost three decades. Dschurow was briefly in the transition phase in 1990 still Defense Minister of Bulgaria under Andrei Lukanow .

He wrote articles on military and political issues. Dobri Dschurow was awarded the Order of Lenin , the Order of Georgi Dimitrov and as a Hero of the People's Republic of Bulgaria .

Works

• Мургаш , Memoiren, 1966, (German: Operationsbasis Murgasch ), 1975
• Командирът организатор и възпитател , 1974
• За военната политика на партията , 1977
• С вяра и меч през годините. Избрани произведения , 1984
• The transformation and the Bulgarian People's Army , 1989

literature

• Djakov, Emil Stefanow . In: Taschenlexikon Bulgaria , Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1983, page 62.