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Boris Stoyanov Drangov (Bulgarian: Борис Стоянов Дрангов; Macedonian: Борис Стојанов Дрангов; 15 March 1872 – 26 May 1917) was a Bulgarian Army officer and warfare pedagogue.
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Boris Stoyanov Drangov (Bulgarian: Борис Стоянов Дрангов; Macedonian: Борис Стојанов Дрангов; 15 March 1872 – 26 May 1917) was a Bulgarian Army officer and warfare pedagogue.
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Biography Drangov was born in Skopje in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia (today the capital of North Macedonia), to the family of a rich timber merchant. He graduated from the local Bulgarian Pedagogical School. In 1891, he enrolled in the Military School in the capital of Principality of Bulgaria – Sofia. After a conflict with an officer, he was dispatched to Plovdiv in 1894. A few months later, his punishment was overturned and he continued his education at the Military School. In 1895, Drangov was promoted to lieutenant and appointed a junior officer in the 3rd Cavalry Regiment in Plovdiv. There he wrote his Detailed Program for Training Young and Old Soldiers in the Infantry, which marked the beginning of Bulgarian military pedagogy and which underwent four editions in the following years. On January 21, 1898, he was appointed a junior officer in the Fourth Squadron of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Lom. In 1899, he became a senior lieutenant. In the town, Drangov met his future wife Raina Drangova, the daughter of the Bulgarian revolutionary Denko Nikolov Popov from Mlado Nagorichene, whom he married in 1900. During the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising of 1903, Drangov left the Bulgarian Army to arrive in Macedonia. There,…
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Family Drangov's wife Rayna was one of the founders and an active member of the Macedonian Women's Union. His son Kiril was a prominent activist of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, who was killed by the communist authorities in Bulgaria after the Second World War. His grandson, Boris, graduated from the Sofia Theological Seminary in 1976 and was invited to Toronto to head the Macedono-Bulgarian St. George Orthodox Church. After the fall of communism, his granddaughter Rayna was among the founders of VMRO-SMD in Sofia.
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Honours Three villages in Bulgaria bear Boris Drangov's name: Drangovo, Kardzhali Province, Drangovo, Blagoevgrad Province and Drangovo, Plovdiv Province. Drangov Peak in the Breznik Heights on Greenwich Island, Antarctica, was also named after him.
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Literature Шишков, К., Полковник Борис Дрангов — избрани произведения, Военно издателство, София, 1985. Шишков, К., Преподавателят майор Борис Дрангов., „Военнисторически сборник“, 1985, № 5. Недев, Светлозар, Командването на българската войска през войните за национално обединение, Военноиздателски комплекс „Свети Георги Победоносец“, София, 1993, стр. 181. Борис Дрангов. Сборник материали и научни изследвания. София, 1993. Карнфилов, Ефрем. Борис Дрангов в: Ефрем Каранфилов, „Българи“, София, 1980. Узунов, Христо. Полковник Борис Дрангов, „Армейски преглед“, 1986, №10.