Georgi Traykov Girovski, also known as Georgi Traykov (, 14 April 1898 – 14 January 1975), was a

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

n politician and the longtime leader of

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. Traykov became leader of the Agrarian Union in December 1947, a year after the

Bulgarian Communist Party The Bulgarian Communist Party ( Bulgarian: Българска комунистическа партия (БΚП), Romanised: ''Bŭlgarska komunisticheska partiya''; BKP) was the founding and ruling party of the People's Republic of Bulgaria f ...

rose to power. He quickly dismissed officials not affiliated with the

, helping to make the party a loyal partner of the Communists. On 23 April 1964 he became the nominal head of state and Chairman of the Presidium of the

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, following the death of

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. He remained head of state until 7 July 1971, when the leader of the communist party,

Todor Zhivkov Todor Hristov Zhivkov ( ; 7 September 1911 – 5 August 1998) was a Bulgarians, Bulgarian communist statesman who served as the ''de facto'' leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB) from 1954 until 1989 as General Secretary of the Cen ...

, took that position as the Chairman of the State Council. Nearly a year later, In April 1972, Traykov also gave up his position as chairman of the national assembly. In July 1972 Traykov was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the State Council and held this post until November 1974. Traykov won a

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in 1962. Traykov died on 14 January 1975, aged 76.

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