Nikola Jurukov

Nikola Jurukow (also Nikola Yurukov written Bulgarian Никола Юруков * 28 July 1877 in Labanica, then Ottoman Empire , now Agios Dimitrios in Greece ; † 26. April 1923 in Sofia , Bulgaria ) is a Bulgarian architect and functionary was the IMRO ( Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization ) and the Macedonian Federal Organization .

Life

Nikola Jurukow was born on July 28, 1877 in the Macedonian Labanica near Kostur (today Kastoria in Greece). Between 1891 and 1895 he attended high school in Plovdiv, Bulgaria . After graduating in Plovdiv, he went to Vienna , where he studied architecture at the Technical University and graduated in 1900. Then Yurukov returned to Bulgaria.

The Hotel Union Palace, on the right in the back of the Great Mosque of Sofia

From 1902 to 1903 Jurukov was an independent architect in Pazardzhik and Plovdiv . He then moved to the Bulgarian capital Sofia, where he worked with the building contractor Ivan Naumov , who came from the same place. When Druzhba AG (Bulg. Дружба АД) from Varna won the tender for the construction of the Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church in Sofia, they entrusted the construction management to the architects Jurokow, Naumow, Georgiev and L. Kiselintschew, who were a general contractor for the construction of the Church founded. From 1906 to 1912 Jurukov was a member of the commission for the construction of the Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church. In 1910 he studied together with Georgi Fingow on behalf of the industrial entrepreneur S. Sawow technologies for products made of marble in Italy, Germany and the Danube Monarchy . In 1911 Jurukov co-founded the architectural firm Fingow, Nitschew and Jurukow (Bulgarian Фигов, Ничев и Юруков).

Jurukow took part on the Bulgarian side in the Balkan Wars (1912/13) and the First World War (1914/18). In 1913 he signed a memorandum to the great powers for the incorporation of Macedonia into Bulgaria. In 1918 Jurukow resigned from the joint architects' office and became a board member of the construction company "Girdap" and head of an IMRO committee.

Nikola Jurukov was murdered in Sofia on April 26, 1923 for political reasons (see also History of Bulgaria # Macedonian Question ).

Famous works

• Goranov's house (1911) in Sofia
• Jurukov and Naumov house, later Hotel Union Palace (1911, was located opposite the Great Mosque of Sofia (since 1893 Archaeological Museum of Sofia ), damaged in the bombing of Sofia in 1944 , demolished in 1950/54 during the construction of today's city center, see Lagro - Architectural complex) in Sofia
• House I. Naumow (1912) in Sofia, 3 Schipka street
• Georgi Sawa Rakowski primary school (1911–1912 with D. Nitschew and Georgi Fingow) in Sofia
• Josif Kowatsachew primary school (1911–1912 with Nitschew and Fingow) in Sofia
• IV. Progymnasium for boys (1911–1912 with Nitschew and Fingow, today Konstantin Fotinow elementary school) in Sofia
• Insurance company for employees (1912 with Nitschew and Fingow) in Sofia, Bul Zar Oswoboditel / Str. G. Benkowski
• Chamber of Commerce and Industry (1912–1915 with Nitschew and Fingow, today the seat of SIBANK ) in Soifa
• School buildings in Plovdiv (1912)
• Bank of Sofia (1913 with Nitschew and Fingow, today the central administration of the State Savings Bank and DSK Bank ) in Sofia, 19 Moskowska Street
• Chamber of Commerce and Industry (1913) in Plovdiv
• Otto Dörken's house (increase in 1914) in Sofia

literature

• Grigor Doytchinov, Christo Gantchev: Austrian architects in Bulgaria. 1878-1918. Böhlau, ao Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-205-99343-8 , p. 137 ff.
• Енциклопедия България. Volume 7: Тл - Я с допълнение. Академично издателство "Проф.Марин Дринов", София 1996, ISBN 954-8104-01-6 , p. 554.