The Central Sofia Cemetery or the Orlandovtsi

Orlandovtsi

Orlandovtsi is a neighbourhood of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It lies in the northeast of the city and is administratively part of the Serdika municipality....

 Cemetery ("Орландовци") is the main cemetery

Cemetery

A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...

 in Sofia

Sofia

Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

, the capital of Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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. The cemetery has several chapels used by various Christian

Christianity

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 denominations, such as a Bulgarian Orthodox church of the Dormition of the Theotokos

Dormition of the Theotokos

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,^{http://gallery.slovar.org.uk/details.php?image_id=2941} a Roman Catholic chapel of Saint Francis of Assisi,^{http://www.abagar1.com/content.php?RID=5&AID=56http://gallery.slovar.org.uk/details.php?image_id=2940&mode=search} an Armenian Apostolic chapel,^{http://gallery.slovar.org.uk/details.php?image_id=2949&sessionid=54} a Jewish synagogue

Synagogue

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, etc.^{http://mmmitov.blogspot.com/2007/09/blog-post_2904.html} The cemetery also features Russia

Russia

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n, Serbia

Serbia

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n and Romania

Romania

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n military sections.

Notable interments

• Mykhailo Drahomanov
  Mykhailo Drahomanov
  Mykhailo Petrovych Drahomanov was a Ukrainian political theorist, economist, historian, philosopher, ethnographer and public figure in Kiev. Born to a noble family of Petro Yakymovych Drahomanov who was of a Cossack descent. Mykhailo Drahomanov started his education at home, then studied at the...
  
  , Ukrainian scholar.^{http://www.ukrpressbg.com/his-ukr-dragomanov03.html}
• Andrey Lyapchev
• Lyubomir Miletich
  Lyubomir Miletich
  Lyubomir Miletich was a leading Bulgarian linguist, ethnographer, dialectologist and historian, as well as the chairman of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1926 to his death....
  
  
• Gyorche Petrov
  Gjorche Petrov
  Gyorche Petrov Nikolov , born Georgi Petrov Nikolov , was one of the leaders of the Macedonian-Adrianople revolutionary movement .- Biography :...
  
  
• Boris Sarafov
  Boris Sarafov
  Boris Petrov Sarafov was a revolutionary from the region of Macedonia, one of the leaders of Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee and Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization...
  
  
• Petko Slaveykov
  Petko Slaveykov
  Petko Rachov Slaveykov was a noted nineteenth-century Bulgarian poet, publicist, public figure and folklorist.-Early years and educational activity:...
  
  
• Pencho Slaveykov
  Pencho Slaveykov
  Pencho Petkov Slaveykov was a noted Bulgarian poet and one of the participants in the Misal circle. He was the youngest son of the writer Petko Slaveykov....
  
  
• Hristo Smirnenski
  Hristo Smirnenski
  Hristo Smirnenski , born as Hristo Izmirliev, was a Bulgarian poet and prose writer. His hometown was Kukush in Macedonia, Ottoman Empire, , which had militant traditions and an enterprising population. Hristo spent a happy childhood in a friendly and understanding patriarchal home...
  
  
• Dimitar Talev
  Dimitar Talev
  Dimitar Talev was a Bulgarian writer and journalist.-Biography:Born in Prilep - Ottoman Empire, present day Republic of Macedonia, he graduated high school in Bitola. Talev studied medicine and philosophy in Zagreb and Vienna, and Slavic philology in Sofia University...
  
  
• Todor Zhivkov
  Todor Zhivkov
  Todor Khristov Zhivkov was a communist politician and leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from March 4, 1954 until November 10, 1989....
  
  , Bulgarian Communist
  Communism
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  politician