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The square's name is "Patriarch Evtimii". "Popa" is it local nickname. Please, label accordingly.

There is a new retail shop and showroom located at 11 Industrialna str. Sofia

Tuan, I don't know if you're still seeing this, but still; Please if you have some additional information what happed durring the making of the second tower please e-mail me at sonvejita@abv.bg. I've quite some question regarding building and evalution in sofia during the period of the late 80's Karim

it's not a hostel anymore. It'part of the Sofia university campus.

Eelemag suxx. Fantastiko Uber Alles

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The name of this Sofia's neighbourhood means "The fridge" in english

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Here must have been Kino Iztok. I saw "The Godfather" I,II here. There was a nice "Sladkarnitsa" attached to it, where you can have maybe the best "boza" in Sofia. Oh boza, that lovely drink you can find nowhere in this world except Bulgaria ! I miss it so badly ! Tuan Phung (Vietnamese, former student in VMEI - TU Sofia 1977-1983)

the most corrupted academy in bulgaria.you can enter here with the price of 400 euro

Ivailo and Elena live here ;)

For countless times I'd walked through this park from my hostel's room to VMEI and vice versa. Especially after passing an exam, I always chose to walk home on foot. But I loved this park most during spring, is was so beautiful with fresh green grass and flowers everywhere.

Right after its building, it was originally named after Ludmila Jipkova the daughter of Bulgarian communist leader Todor Jipkov after she died from a sudden stroke as a member of Politburo of BKP. It is a really beautiful construction.

Sad to hear that. In 1970s-1980s many Vietnamese students were taking their studies here. One of the most successful Vietnamese graduates is now the Standing Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam, Dr. Nguyen Sinh Hung. At that time such negative phenomena were just unthinkable. In this sense, the old time was real good.

In this block there must have been a library. During summer vacations I had come and read lots of nice books here, mostly novels from renown Western and Russian writers.

Thanks, Marketolog! Here I first had summer internship session in June 1977. After that I'd still come back here many times to take seasonal jobs, mainly in the Blacksmith workshop to earn some money. Very hard job, but relatively well-paid.

Here was the hostel I lived in from Oct. 1976 to June 1977. I'm sure. The building across the park was that of Ministry of Education. When in 1983 I graduated from VMEI Lenin with outstanding results, this Ministry offer me to continue my studies with doctorate graduation granting me a full scholarship. But for many reasons I could not do that.

I lived in this town for 7 years from 1977 to 1984, studying in TU Sofia (then VMEI Lenin). I'm now looking for my old friend and roommate Ilian Iliev from Stara Zagora. Hey Ilian4o, obady se, iskam da te 4uia !!! Az sam Phung, onzi Vietnamese :)

Mausoleums were built solely for Pharaohs and ... communist leaders in order to immortalize them. But only History can decide who and what is immortal !!! Let alone the mausoleum, I consider Dimitrov a big figure in Bulgarian modern history.