Nadezhda, Sofia
Nadezhda ( , ) is a district located it the north-western parts of Sofia with an area of 19.300 sq. km. As of 2011 it has 67,905 inhabitants. It includes nine neighbourhoods: "Nadezhda" I, II, III and IV; "Tolstoy"; "Svoboda"; "Triagalnika"; "Iliyantsi" and "Trebich". In 1906 there were only a few houses in the area where the road from Sofia to Lom passed through the fertile fields. Nadezhda received a neighbourhood status in 1924 and from September 1934 it became a centre of a municipality which included several villages. It derived its name from Tsar Boris III's youngest sister , Nadezhda. There are many manufacturing plants. The main industrial activities are machinery, electronics, chemical, pharmaceutical (Sopharma plant), furniture and others. Nadezhda has two churches and a monastery. There are 13 schools, 13 kindergartens, 6 chitalishta. The name "Nadezhda" is symbolic in that it is also the name of one of the three daughters of the city's patron saint - Saint Sophia (the three daughters were called Faith, Hope and Love).