page_title: Aleksandra Monedzhikova
section_title: Writer
hierarchical_section_title: Aleksandra Monedzhikova / Biography / Writer
caption_attribution_description: Български: Фотография на Александра Монеджикова заедно със съпругa си Найден Николов. English: Bulgarian geographer Aleksandra Monedzhikova with her husband Nayden Nikolov.
context_page_description: Aleksandra Mihailova Monedzhikova was a Bulgarian geographer, historian, writer and teacher.
context_section_description: Monedzhikova left teaching to devote herself to active journalistic, social, scientific and promotional activities with the goal of spreading science among the masses. To do so, she engaged in lectures, talks and fairy tales, and often accompanied them with additional activities such as screenings and research presentations.  She also co-authored, geography textbooks for schools, articles in newspapers and magazines, and editorial work. She gave several geographical lectures at the Thessaloniki cinema, in Greece.
  She also worked at the Union of French Alumni in Sofia, giving a number of lectures, accompanied by screenings in the capital and in the country about Paris, the French Revolutions, the Museums of Paris and other topics of interest. She was also chosen as the cultural leader of her visit to the World's Fair in Paris in 1937, and the following year, she published her book Paris through the Centuries (1938).
  She published a wide variety of original, popular science and translated articles in the newspapers Zarya, Mir, Anvil, etc. She also collaborated with the magazines Bulgarian Tourist, Youth Tourist, Our Village and Fight against Alcoholism.  
  At the same time, Monedzhikova was an active member of the management of the Bulgarian Geographical Society (BGD), and starting on 9 September 1944, she served as its chairman until 1948. Until the end of her life she remained an honorary member of the BGD as well as the All-Union Geographical Society in Leningrad.
caption: Bulgarian geographer Aleksandra Monedzhikova with her husband Nayden Nikolov in 1908.
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