Georgi Stoilov | |
Birth Name: | Georgi Vladimirov Stoilov |
Birth Date: | 1929 4, df=y |
Birth Place: | , Bulgaria |
Death Place: | Sofia, Bulgaria |
Nationality: | Bulgarian |
Occupation: | Architect |
Education: | Moscow Architectural Institute |
Party: | BCP (1949–1990) BSP (1990–2022) |
Term Start: | 9 July 1971 |
Term End: | 24 July 1973 |
Predecessor: | (as Minister of Construction and Building Materials) |
Successor: | (as Minister of Construction and Architecture) |
Office2: | Mayor of Sofia |
Term Start2: | 20 September 1967 |
Term End2: | 11 November 1971 |
Predecessor2: | Georgi Petkov |
Office3: | Member of the National Assembly of Bulgaria |
Term Start3: | 11 March 1966 |
Term End3: | 3 April 1990 |
Georgi Vladimirov Stoilov (Bulgarian: Георги Владимиров Стоилов; 3 April 1929 – 14 December 2022) was a Bulgarian architect and politician best known for designing the Buzludzha Monument.
Stoilov was born on 3 April 1929 in the village of Kondofrey in western Bulgaria.[1] As part of the Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II, he joined the Workers Youth League and the in 1944. Stoilov became a full member of the Bulgarian Communist Party by 1949.[2] He graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute in 1954 before beginning his career at the Glavproekt Institute in Sofia.[3]
Stoilov served in the National Assembly of Bulgaria from 1966 to 1990,[4] was mayor of Sofia from 1967 to 1971,[5] and was from 1971 to 1973.[6]
Stoilov died in Sofia on 14 December 2022, at the age of 93.[7]