Tone Penkov Perenovski was a participant in the Bulgarian communist resistance movement during World War II, he was the first Commander of the

Chavdar Partisan Brigade The Chavdar Partisan Brigade was a subdivision of the First Sofia Insurgent Operational Zone of the People's Liberation Insurgent Army (NOVA) during the Bulgarian resistance movement during World War II (1941–1944). It operated in the v ...

Biography

Tone Perenovski was born on May 4, 1909, in the village of

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, near Sofia. He was a member of the BCMA since 1930, and of the BCP since 1931. From 1932 to 1936, he was a political emigrant in the

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. While in Russia, he graduated from the

Communist University of the National Minorities of the West The Communist University of the National Minorities of the West (KUNMZ – ''Kommunistichesky Universitet Natsionalnykh Menshinstv Zapada''; КУНМЗ - Коммунистический университет национальных меньши ...

in 1936. He returned to Bulgaria soon after, though shortly after he arrived, he was convicted of political activity under the CPA. He served his sentence in Sliven Prison. He took part in the communist resistance movement during the Second World War. He was interned in the Krastopole camp, but managed to escape, he then went underground. He became a Partisan in 1942, and participated in the creation of the

, being made the first Commander of the brigade from September 1942 to October 1943. After the formation of the Fatherland Front on September 9, 1944, he served as a political officer in the BNA, and became the Deputy Commander of the 8th Infantry Division. From November 8, 1944, he was assistant commander of the Fifth Bomber Regiment. After the end of the Second World War, he was transferred to economic work and became the first deputy chairman of the General Directorate of Roads. In 1969 he was promoted to the rank of Major General of the Reserve. He was a member of the Central Committee of 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 ...

from 1966 to 1976. He was awarded the

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, V degree, m.s.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Perenovski, Tone 1909 births 1985 deaths Bulgarian resistance members Bulgarian Communist Party politicians Bulgarian expatriates in the Soviet Union