2024-03-04 21:47:59
A Bulgarian delegation led by the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Rositsa Kirova visited Izmail in Ukraine, BTA reports.
The delegation also includes the capital’s municipal councilor Dragomir Mladenov, the dean of the Faculty of Geology and Geography of SU “St. Kliment Ohridski” Prof. Kliment Naydenov and the writer Severina Markova. The delegation also visited the Izmail Polytechnic Lyceum, where there is a memorial plaque with the profile of Hristo Botev. In the 19th century, the state church-parish school was located in this place, where Botev taught Bulgarian in 1869-70. The Bulgarians are fighting to bear his name and are convinced that in time they will be able to do it, he tells BTA Rositsa Kirova. We also visited the Izmail State Humanitarian University, where there is a bust-monument of Hristo Botev, we also laid flowers, Kirova also pointed out.
We visited the classrooms of the Bulgarian Sunday School. The halls are in the building of the university, but they are for Bulgarian Sunday school. There was a new hall, which has been equipped with the help of the Consul General of Bulgaria, with new computers, an interactive whiteboard and many educational materials. These are rooms where ethnic Bulgarians learn everything about Bulgaria – Bulgarian language, history, geography and traditions of Bulgaria, explained Rositsa Kirova.
In Izmail, a quarter of the population are Bulgarians, about 25% 26.2% Moldovans, Ukrainians and Russians about 20% each, there are Gagauz and 1% Gypsies.
Yesterday, the Bulgarian delegation visited the Bulgarian village of Zarya (Kamchik) in Sarat Municipality, Belgorodnist District of Odesa Region.