death_place death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name organization
bachevo , today bulgaria november 12 , 1912 bachevo , today bulgaria 1870 kosta atanasov
 kosta atanasov imaro
kosta atanasov

kosta atanasov manushkin was a bulgarian teacher and a revolutionary , a worker of the internal macedonian-adrianople revolutionary organization -lrb- imaro -rrb- .
kosta atanasov was born in 1870 in the village of bachevo , razlog municipality , then part of the ottoman empire .
in 1888 he finished the bulgarian school in bansko , and in 1894 he graduated from the bulgarian pedagogical school in serres .
then he returned in his village and became a teacher .
later , he also worked as a teacher in gradevo and kresna .
he entered the imaro and became a president of the bachevo revolutionary committee .
in 1901 he became a freedom fighter and joined the revolutionary band of yane sandanski .
during the ilinden-preobrazhenie uprising , he was a voyvoda -lrb- leader -rrb- of a revolutionary band and after he got injured in a battle near bachevo he went to sofia for medical treatment .
in 1904 , he returned in macedonia and participated in the reconstruction of the revolutionary organization .
from 1904 to 1912 he worked as a teacher in the villages of yakoruda , eleshnitsa , dobrinishte , bansko and bachevo .
after the young turk revolution in 1908 , he became a member of the people 's federative party -lrb- bulgarian section -rrb- .
he participated in the detachment of yane sandanski on his way to constantinople to support the young turks .
he was killed by political opponents in 1912 .
