Bulgaria Marks the Day of National Revival Leaders

Every year on November 1^st, Bulgaria celebrates the Day of the National Revival Leaders. The day is devoted to enlighteners, bookmen and fighters for national liberation who preserved the spiritual values of the nation over the centuries.

On that day, Bulgarians pay tribute to those involved in teaching, studying culture or scientific work.

The day is marked with hoisting of the national flag in front of the building of the Presidency in Sofia while the national anthem of Bulgaria is played.

Bulgaria’s President and Commander-in-chief of the Bulgarian armed forces, Roumen Radev, greeted the guard of honour unit.

After that, he met with scientists and cultural workers. Various celebrations for the Day of the National Revival Leaders take place across the country.

The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences will celebrate the feast with a solemn assembly to nominate its most talented young scientists. The teams of the National Library and the National Literature Museum will lay wreaths at the monument to Saint Paisius of Hilendar in Sofia. (Saint Paisius of Hilendar was a clergyman and a key figure of the Bulgarian National Revival; author of Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya, the second modern Bulgarian history after the work of Petar Bogdan Bakshev from 1667, "History of Bulgaria".)