page_title: Nikola Stoyanov
section_title: Other state and public posts
hierarchical_section_title: Nikola Stoyanov / Other state and public posts
caption_attribution_description: Български: bg:Никола Стоянов в униформа на Съюз "Юнак"
context_page_description: Nikola Stoyanov Mitov was a Bulgarian scientist, economist and financier. He was in charge of the Bulgarian Government Debt Directorate for much of the interwar period and as such, he led the prolonged negotiations over the country's foreign debt. The agreements helped stabilise the country's national currency and contributed to the economic growth Bulgaria experienced prior to World War II. Between 1929 and 1944, Stoyanov was editor-in-chief of the authoritative journal of the Bulgarian Economic Society. He was also a prominent member of various organisations of Macedonian immigrants to Bulgaria and one of the founders of the Macedonian Scientific Institute, as well as its chairman between 1938 and 1945. Stoyanov was the first Bulgarian author whose scientific work on astronomy was published abroad.
context_section_description: While serving as State Debt Directorate Head, Stoyanov took other state posts for various terms. He was the state representative in the Sofia Stock Exchange, member of the committee regulating insurance, as well as part of the boards of various institutions, like the State Public Depot, the Liquidating Fund, the State Lottery, and the Committee for the Construction of the Rila Water Pipe. Between 1935 and 1936, he was also Secretary General of the Ministry of Finance.
  In the meantime, Stoyanov was among the active figures of the Bulgarian Economics Society (BES) and the Statistical Institute for Economic Research. He was editor-in-chief of the BES Magazine between 1929 and 1944.
  In 1925 Stoyanov headed the Managing Council of the newly established Macedonian Cooperative Bank. He was among the founding members of the Macedonian Scientific Institute (MSI) and went on to chair the institute, following Lyubomir Miletich’s death in 1938. After the murder of Aleksandar Protogerov in 1928, Stoyanov started supporting the so-called ‘’Mihaylovist’’ fraction of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. One of the most prominent Macedonian Bulgarians, three-time Prime Minister Andrey Lyapchev, named Stoyanov as his last will’s executor. Soon after World War II broke out, Stoyanov, acting as MSI Chair, signed the 1940 Declaration of the Macedonian Émigré Organisations which changed the goal of the Macedonian liberation movement from autonomy for Macedonia and the Adrianople region and independent Macedonia to Macedonia’s incorporation into Bulgaria. A year later, as Chairman of the Doyran Brotherhood, he signed the Appeal for Vardar Macedonia’s incorporation into Bulgaria.
  Stoyanov participated in yet more public organisations, like the Yunak Gymnastic Society, the Periodicals’ Union, and the local Rotary Club, among others. He was a long-serving Chairman of Alliance française branch in Sofia, for which he was pronounced Officer of the French Legion of Honour in 1935. Thirteen years later Stoyanov received the rank of Commandeur (Commander).
caption: Stoyanov in a ‘’Yunak’’ Union uniform
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