X-Nico

unusual facts about Varna-Devnya Industrial Complex


Varna-Devnya Industrial Complex

Some of the largest companies based here are: Solvay-Sodi (Солвей-Соди), part of Solvay, Agropolichim (Агрополихим), part of the Acid & Fertilizers Group, Polimeri (Полимери АД), part of AKB Fores, Devnya-Cement (Девня-Цимент), part of Italcementi, Thermal Power Plant Deven (Девен AД), part of Solvay, Thermal Power Plant Varna (ТЕЦ Варна, (1260 MW), part of the ČEZ Group.


1802 Vrancea earthquake

Earthquake caused fear in Warsaw (Poland), and in Bulgaria, the cities of Ruse, Varna and Vidin suffered some damage and panic amongst the population.

Ahir Yadav Kshatriya Mahasabha

Singh was a descendant of the Abhira dynasty, and the association stated that the Ahirs were the descendants of the Yadu dynasty to which the god Krishna belonged, and thus were members of the Kshatriya (warrior) class in the Hindua varna system.

Bekir Rasim

Born in Varna, Rasim was raised in small village Medovets, Dalgopol Municipality.

Belavia

Throughout summer 2012 they operated charter flights to Izmir, Bodrum, Varna and Bourgas and scheduled flights to Gomel, Moscow and Frankfurt.

Beloslav

A road bridge is to be built in the near future over the canal east of town carrying a bypass of the E87 international highway now passing through downtown Varna via the Asparuhov most bridge.

Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

In addition, the A1 and A2 motorways, currently in construction, would make the trip from the capital Sofia to the coast substantially easier and faster, while the A3 is planned to connect Varna and Burgas.

Bulgarian torpedo boat Drazki

Shortly after midnight on 21 November they encountered the Ottoman protected cruiser Hamidiye accompanied by two destroyers approximately 32 miles from Varna.

Bunavad

An inauguration ceremony for the airline and its first scheduled air service, between Sofia, Ruse, and Varna, was held at Sofia Bozhurishte Airport on 25 October 1927.

Charles Champaud

In Bulgaria, Charles Champaud also played an important role in introducing football to the country and was the person to bring the sport to the capital city of Sofia in 1895 (the first football game in Bulgaria being in Varna in 1894, organized by another Swiss teacher, Georges de Regibus).

Cherno More motorway

As of 2006 10 km of the motorway are completed, from the Asparuhov bridge in Varna to the village of Priseltsi.

Daniel Cambridge

In June he embarked with his regiment for the Crimea, passing through Scutari and Varna and disembarked on the Crimean Peninsula with the siege train on 19 September 1854.

Desi Dobreva

She was born in Varna, Bulgaria to a family of engineers and has a degree from the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Erkech dialect

As a result of the mass population movements that affected eastern Bulgaria during the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, speakers of the dialect have established numerous colonies in the regions of Provadia, Varna, Novi Pazar, Balchik, Silistra and Pomorie, thus significantly expanding the range of the dialect.

Eva Evdokimova

The first American to do so, Evdokimova won the Varna International Ballet Competition in 1970, having been snubbed earlier that year in a Moscow competition.

Evelyn Hart

She was the first Canadian to win gold at the Varna International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria in 1980 for the Belong Pas de Deux choreographed by Norbert Vesak.

George Biddlecombe

When attached to the Talbot, 1838–42, he surveyed numerous anchorages on the Ionian station, in the Archipelago, and up the Dardanelles and Bosphorus; examined the south shore of the Black Sea as far as Trabzon, as well as the port of Varna, and prepared a survey, published by the admiralty, of the bays and banks of Akko.

Hashalom

Friends in Sofia and Filipolje, we wait for your good promises: to our subscribers in Pazardzhik, Niš, Vidin, Yambol, Varna, Kragujevac, Dupnica, thank you for continuation of your favors to enable us continue: subscribers in Sarajevo and Šabac, we thank you as well (Hashalom III, 2: 16).

Hemus Air

Hemus Air, named after the ancient name for the Balkan mountains, is owned by Varna-based industrial/financial enterprise TIM.

Ivan Vedar

Later, new lodges were founded in Varna (where the first Great lodge was located for a short time), Sofia, and some other cities, but in 1887 Vedar was forced to "put asleep" all lodges, because of the danger that their activity gets spoiled by political and interpersonal struggles, so common in the young and inexperienced country.

James Bucknall Bucknall Estcourt

As adjutant-general he performed his duties efficiently during the weary months of waiting and sickness at Gallipoli and at Varna, and also at the battles of Alma and Inkerman.

Jun Shuang Huang

During that time he received awards from the 2008 Varna International Ballet Competition and the 2009 Helsinki International Ballet Competition.

Kalimantsi

Kalimantsi, Varna Province, a village in Suvorovo municipality, Varna Province

Karel Škorpil

In 1881, he moved to what was then Eastern Rumelia (since 1885 united with the Principality of Bulgaria) to work as a high-school teacher in the Bulgarian cities of Plovdiv (1882-1886), Sliven (1886-1888), Varna (1888-1890, 1894-1915) and Veliko Tarnovo (1890-1894).

Karl Robatsch

He was a winner at Madrid in 1961 (with Borislav Milic) and achieved outright or shared second place at Kapfenberg 1955, Varna 1957, Utrecht 1961 and Beverwijk 1962.

Kiyevsky railway station

As the name suggests there are regular services to Kiev as well as Belgrade, Zagreb, Varna, Bucharest, Sofia, Niš, Budapest, Prague, Vienna and Venice.

Ladislaus III

Władysław III of Poland and Lithuania (1424–1444), Polish name Władysław Warneńczyk, also king of Hungary, known posthumously as Vladislaus III of Varna

Lovech

However soon after that the teaching of English and French was moved to Sofia and Varna respectively, founding the first language schools in these cities: the First English Language School in Sofia in 1954 and the French Language School in Varna in 1958.

National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria

Attended by over 820 people from across the country, mainly from the cities of Varna, Shumen, Asenovgrad, Pazardzhik, Plovdiv, Vratsa, Svilengrad, Lovech, Chirpan, Stara Zagora, Vidin and Dobrich.

Nesebar Municipality

Its northern border is with the municipalities of Byala and Dolni Chiflik, its western border — with the municipality of Pomorie, and its eastern border is the Black Sea.

Nikolay Minev

Minev's best international results were: third at Varna in 1960, second at Warsaw in 1961, tie for first at Sombor in 1966, and second at Albena in 1975.

Osenovo

Osenovo, Varna Province - a village in the Aksakovo municipality, Varna Province

Polkovnik Savovo

The hunting grounds, known as the Station, have a total of 14,801 ha of forests and are situated in the middle part of the Dobrudzha and Varna plateaus, about 500 km from Sofia Airport and 100 km from Varna Airport.

Qualimetry

That this initiative was timely and justifiable was borne out by a series of international scholarly conferences fully or partly devoted to issues of qualimetry, e.g., in Moscow, Oslo, Varna, Yerevan, Madrid or Tallinn.

Raion

In Bulgaria, raions are subdivisions of three biggest cities: Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna.

Rick Cheek

Cheek suffered a one-sided beating at the hands of Cătălin Moroşanu at the SuperKombat World Grand Prix 7 in Varna, Bulgaria on July 7, 2012.

Ruse Central railway station

The station is an important transport hub, with trains to Sofia, Varna, Plovdiv domestically and Bucharest and Istanbul internationally.

Saints Constantine and Helena, Bulgaria

Constantine and Helena, the Euxinograd royal summer palace, park and winery, and the Sofia University Botanical Garden, also known as Ecopark Varna.

Sergei Vikharev

A Saint Petersburg-born Vikharev graduated from the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet and the same year won a prize in Varna at the International Ballet Competition.

Silvia Sorina Munteanu

Aside from her native country, she has performed in Frankfurt, Essen, Sofia, Varna, Prague, Bratislava, and Budapest, as well as at festivals in other European countries, Thailand, and the United States.

Strazhitsa

Strazhitsa has a railway station on the Sofia-Varna railway line, located some 33 km from the railway station of Popovo and some 27 km from the railway station of Gorna Oryahovitsa.

Varna culture

The discontinuity of the Varna, Karanovo, Vinča and Lengyel cultures in their main territories and the large scale population shifts to the north and northwest are indirect evidence of a catastrophe of such proportions that cannot be explained by possible climatic change, Desertification, or epidemics.

Via Pontica

Via Pontica was an ancient Roman road in Thrace along the Black Sea, starting from Byzantium and passing through Konstantinople, Deultum (today Debelt), Aquae Calidae (today Burgas), Apollonia, Mesambria, Odessos, Byzone, Kaliakra (today in Bulgaria), Kallatis, Tomis and Istros (today in Romania).

Vratsa Province

The distance to the major cities is as follows: Vratsa - Varna 414 km, Vratsa - Plovdiv 217 km; Vratsa - Pleven 108 km; Vratsa - Burgas 416 km.

Yuriy Venelin

He visited Bulgarian cities like Varna, Kavarna and Silistra, recording folk songs and sayings and gaining a firsthand knowledge of the Bulgarian language's specifics.


see also