S. D. Dimitrov, a Hero of Not Our Time
Journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria
Year: 2023

Although the fate of S. D. Dimitrov (1904–1938) began to attract the researchers’ attention only recently, it is very demonstrative for the history of our country in the 1920–30s. S. D. Dimitrov was born in Bulgaria into a working-class family; he took part in the revolutionary movement in his early ages, and joined the Communist Party. After taking part in the armed uprising of 1923, he had to leave Bulgaria, and emigrated to the USSR in 1925. He studied at the Communist University and then at