Kazichene ( ) is a large village in the
Pancharevo
Pancharevo (, , also transcribed as Pančarevo) is a district located on the outskirts of the Bulgarian capital Sofia and occupies the southeastern part of the Capital Municipality. Geographically, it lies partially in the Sofia Valley and the m ...
district to the east of the
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 capital of
Sofia
Sofia is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain, in the western part of the country. The city is built west of the Is ...
. As of 2007, the village officially had 4,977 inhabitants. Because of its close proximity to the Sofia ring road and the nearby railroad, over the past decade the area has developed into an industrial-storage zone with a logistics center and offices of a number of prominent companies such as Werta Logistics, Balkan Steel Engineering, and the Chipita snacks factory.
There is a large lake near Kazichene where the Litex
water park
A water park (also waterpark, water world, or aquapark) is an amusement park that features water play areas such as swimming pools, water slides, splash pads, water playgrounds, and lazy rivers, as well as areas for floating, bathing, swimming ...
is located. Built in the mid-1980s, today the park is the only place in Bulgaria offering
boatless water skiing and
wakeboarding
Wakeboarding is a water sport in which the rider, standing on a wakeboard (a board with foot bindings), is towed behind a motorboat across its wake and especially up off the crest in order to perform aerial maneuvers. A hallmark of wakeboarding ...
.
The village has a single football club, FC Kazichene, playing in the Bulgarian fourth division, known as the
A OFG. Several prominent footballers have ended their careers there, including
Emil Kremenliev and Ivan Vasilev. The town is also known for being the birthplace of
Plamen Krumov, a current
Levski Sofia
PFC Levski Sofia () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded on 24 May 1914 by a group of high sc ...
footballer, and
Borislav Stoyanov, who plays for
SV Schwarzhofen.
Kazichene Cove on
Low Island
A coral island is a type of island formed from coral detritus and associated organic material. It occurs in tropical and sub-tropical areas, typically as part of a coral reef which has grown to cover a far larger area under the sea. The term low ...
in the
South Shetland Islands
The South Shetland Islands are a group of List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands, Antarctic islands located in the Drake Passage with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the n ...
,
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...
is named after Kazichene.
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica:
Kazichene Cove.
Gallery
File:Hydropark Litex Water Ski Station Kazichene Bulgaria.jpg, The water ski lift station
File:The French House Kazichene Bulgaria.jpg, The "French House" in Kazichene, with the inscription "My Heart Beats for France"
File:Chipita Snacks Factory Kazichene Bulgaria.jpg, The Chipita Snacks Factory
References
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Villages in Sofia City Province