Boris Drangov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Boris Drangov

Bulgarian revolutionary

Date of Birth: 15-Mar-1872

Place of Birth: Skopje, Skopje Statistical Region, North Macedonia

Date of Death: 26-May-1917

Profession: military officer

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Boris Drangov

  • Boris Stoyanov Drangov (Bulgarian: ????? ??????? ???????; 15 March 1872–26 May 1917) was a Bulgarian colonel and warfare pedagogue. Drangov was born in Skopje in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia (today the capital of the Republic of Macedonia), to the family of a rich timber merchant.
  • He graduated from the local Bulgarian Exarchate school or the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki.
  • In 1891, he enrolled in the Military School in Sofia in the Principality of Bulgaria.
  • After a conflict with an officer, he was dispatched to Lom in 1894; in the town, Drangov met his future wife (also from Macedonia) and was promoted to second lieutenant in 1895.
  • In 1899, he became a first lieutenant. During the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising of 1903, Drangov left the Bulgarian Army to arrive in Macedonia.
  • There, he assembled an armed detachment of 120 men which fought the Ottomans in the Kratovo region.
  • After the uprising's suppression, Drangov returned to the army and was promoted to rotmistar (cavalry captain).
  • He studied at the Imperial Russian General Staff Academy in Saint Petersburg; he graduated with honours in 1907 and returned to Bulgarian service.
  • Promoted to major in 1910, he became a lecturer of military tactics at the Military School in Sofia. During the First Balkan War of 1912–1913, Drangov headed a brigade on the Thracian front, defeating the Ottomans at Çatalca and during the Siege of Adrianople.
  • During the Second Balkan War, Drangov fought the Serbs at Bublyak Peak.
  • In February 1915, he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. With the outbreak of World War I, Drangov was named as the head of a regiment consisting mainly of untrained Macedonian Bulgarian volunteers.
  • Under his training, the regiment turned into an efficient unit and fought at Kalimanci, Kocani and Ĺ tip.
  • He also fought at the Romanian front in Dobruja before he was dispatched back to Macedonia, where his unit guarded the River Crna meander.
  • He was wounded during artillery shelling on 26 May 1917 and died of his wounds the same evening. Boris Drangov was interred in the Saint Demetrius Church's yard in Skopje.
  • His remains were later moved by the Serbian authorities to a common cemetery.
  • Drangov was posthumously promoted to colonel by the Bulgarian Army.

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