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Pozharevo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distance<\/strong> \u2013 located on the road along the Danube River, 11 km east of the municipal center Tutrakan, 3 km from the village of Dunavets, 64 km from the regional center Silistra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opposite the village is one of the largest islands on the Danube \u2013 Pozharevo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Old names<\/strong> : Kosuy, Bulgarian Kosuy, Kusuyul din Vale (the Romanian name), Col. Yanko Draganovo, General Draganovo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1868 it was known as Kosuy, which in Bulgarian means Slivovo. General \u2013 Draganovo was renamed in 1942, in memory of Lieutenant General Yanko Draganov \u2013 commander of the 1st Sofia Division, who participated in the Tutrakan epic. On August 15, 1947, the village was renamed Pozharevo, the village burned down several times and therefore it was named Pozharevo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Population<\/strong> , according to censuses over the years:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1881 \u2013 719 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1888 \u2013 825 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1930 \u2013 1439 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1934 \u2013 1126 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1941 \u2013 1146 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1946 \u2013 1374 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1965 \u2013 838 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1987 \u2013 249 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1992 \u2013 194 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2000 \u2013 189 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2011 – 132 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 \u2013 83 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          First data<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his research from 1972, the historian Racho Zmeev published a collection of flint artifacts stored in the collection of the Historical Museum – Tutrakan. According to him, the materials from the village of Pozharevo date back to the early Paleolithic. Pozharevo is present on the Archaeological Map of Bulgaria with 1. A settlement in the Koloniska Mahala area. Low Danube terrace. An area of \u200b\u200babout 60 acres, sherds from the Roman era and the First Bulgarian State, Roman building ceramics were found. Finds with medium concentration and even distribution. According to local residents, during excavations they came across burials, some of which were in brick chambers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. A settlement from the Late Iron Age and a military camp from the Roman era in the area of \u200b\u200bPostot, a hill on the Danube bank. Altitude 25 \u2013 35 m. Area about 18 decares, cut through by trenches. In the steep northern slope a stone base of a wall is visible, and along the shoreline individual shards from the mentioned periods and flint fragments have been found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Village, east of the monument of P. Hitov. Altitude 15 \u2013 25. Discovered ceramics from the Late Iron, Roman and Late Antique eras, but that from the First Bulgarian State predominates. The finds are of small concentration and evenly distributed. Area about 17 decares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thracian and ancient fortress The post<\/strong> is located in the area of \u200b\u200bthe same name, 2.03 km northeast in a straight line from the center of the village of Pozharevo. It was built near the bank of the Danube River, on the military, Roman, Danube road. According to K. Shkorpil, the fortification is 40 paces long in the east-west direction and 35 paces wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a moat around the Post<\/strong> , except from the north. Even during his time, the fortress was plowed by treasure hunters. Part of the route of the ancient military road and coins from Alexander the Great, as well as Roman ones, were discovered here. Currently, the terrain is completely forested. In a section excavated by treasure hunters, a stone foundation of a wall is visible, and along the shoreline there are individual pieces of household ceramics from the Thracian and Roman times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pozharevo during the Renaissance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pozharevo is an old Bulgarian village, inhabited by “grebentsi” – the indigenous inhabitants of Tutrakan and Silistra, who on Cheese Week light bonfires and play their ancient, ritual game “Kukova Baba”, and on Lazarovden they make buenek. During slavery, when there was a threat of Turkification, the Grebentsi would cross the Danube and then return to their native shores, and this preserved them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Crimean War, 58,000 Tatars from the Crimean Khanate settled in Dobrudja. In the early 1960s, about 12,000 Caucasian mountaineers-Circassians also settled here. These processes also included the Tutrakan Kaza. Tatars and Circassians were also settled in the Bulgarian Kosui.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bulgarian population from the Tutrakan villages also emigrated: from Dolno Ryahovo \u2013 163 families, Kad\u0131k\u00f6y Malak Preslavets \u2013 16 families, Kosuy Pozharevo \u2013 11 families, and settled in villages on the left bank of the Danube such as Ulmen, Surlariy and others, as well as further inland in the Wallachian Plain (in the villages of Luyka, Perlitra and others). By profession they were mainly farmers. Ironworkers, carters, fishermen were less common and tailors were very rare. The majority of refugee families owned a maximum number of livestock of 6\u20138 heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the mass exodus, the Tutrakan region was not de-Bulgarized. A significant part of the Bulgarian Christian population in the villages around Tutrakan survived and continued to live there. These old Bulgarians, known as \u201cgrebentsi\u201d or \u201celiytsi\u201d (which means local residents), are preserved in the villages of Star Smil (Staro Selo), Kad\u0131k\u00f6y (Malak Preslavets), Spanchov (Dunavets), Sarsanlar (Zafirovo), Belitsa, Brushlen and Denizler (Varnentsi). Such \u201cgrebentsi\u201d once inhabited the villages of Ryahovo (Dolno Ryahovo) and Bulgarian Kosuy (Pozharevo), whose former population we find in some villages in Wallachia along the Danube bank (Ulmen, Surlar) or further inland (Luyka, Perlita, etc.). Some of these villages retain their ancient Bulgarian names such as Belitsa, Ryahovo, etc. These settlements were noted in Ottoman documents as purely Bulgarian at the beginning of Ottoman rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Ottoman documents we learn that it was among the first villages of this period and the earliest information about the settlement dates back to the 16th century under the name Kosuy, and later Bulgarian Kosuy. The first settlers were Bulgarian families who came from the Polomie region, Ruse, Silistra and Razgrad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The poll tax (jizye) register for 1656 \u2013 1657 shows that the number of Christian families in some villages in Tutrakan region was significant: Kosuy Geberan (Pozharevo), Kyuhne Ismail (Staro Selo), Ryahovo (Dolno Ryahovo).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the signing of the Treaty of Adrianople (September 2\/14, 1829), 18 families emigrated from Pozharevo to Wallachia. In the 18th century, the village was burned down several times, according to reports by foreign travelers. For example, in 1801, the English officer William Whitman gave the following information about the village: “Directly opposite us on the eastern bank of the river we saw a neighboring village burning and decided that it must have been burned down by some of the robber bands that swarm around the country.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1860s, the settlement was settled by Tatars and Circassians who emigrated during the Russo-Turkish War of Liberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to an extract from an Ottoman register for the households, inhabitants, buildings, lands and taxes of Tutrakan and Tutrakanska kaza, according to the old and new census in the village of Kosi and lands in 1870:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Households \u2013 62.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Residents of Bulgarian origin \u2013 123.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Residents of Islamic origin (Turks) \u2013 60 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Total population \u2013 183 people, according to the old census. Households (houses), according to the new census:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Households (inns) \u2013 104.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Residents of Roma origin \u2013 Muslims 7 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Residents of Bulgarian origin \u2013 141 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Muhajirs (migrants) \u2013 54 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Residents of Islamic origin \u2013 70 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Total population according to the new census \u2013 272 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On April 28, 1867, the detachment of Panayot Hitov with standard-bearer Vasil Levski crossed the Danube River to the village of Bulgarian Kosuy. In the book “How I Became an Outlaw” P. Hitov describes: “At night between 9 and 12 o’clock we crossed the Danube with three boats (boats). This was between April 28 and 29. As soon as we crossed the Danube below Tutrakan, we slept in the forest that stretches along the Danube and is called Deliorman – Mad Forest, and stayed until evening. In the evening we left from there and passed by Bulgarian Slivovo (Gyaurya Slivovo). We captured 1 Turk and, having walked a little to the west, we slept in a large forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In April, we traveled through Deliorman, passed the village of Belitsa, and slept in a dense forest\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the night of May 16-17, 1876, the detachment of Tanyo Stoyanov, the voivode, crossed the Danube River with 28 people. The detachment was the second detachment of the Bulgarian emigration to Romania, organized on the idea of \u200b\u200bHristo Botev. When “Radetzky” passed by Oltenitsa and “they were told by Giurgiu to cross the Danube on May 16”, 28 people secretly went to the previously designated place for crossing the river. It was the same place where nine years earlier, in 1867, the detachment of Panayot Hitov crossed, with standard-bearer Vasil Levski. It was located below the village of Bulgarian Kosui (Pozharevo) and was convenient for landing on Bulgarian soil, because it was hidden by the willow-covered island of Kosui, located almost to the Bulgarian coast. The path of the detachment initially coincided with the path of the Panayothit detachment from 1867, described in detail by the secretary Iv. P. Karshovski. From the hill of Novite mesto, then covered with a centuries-old forest, it passed through the Gabrovnitsa valley and along the hill between Choban Kulak and Kuidulai descended into the Gyaur Punar valley, along which the chetniks went out to the fountain to the present-day Antimovo Hanche campsite, where they crossed the road from Tutrakan to Silistra. Here the two roads diverged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tanyo’s detachment took the southeastern valley and east of the Circassian village of Kuzgun and stopped to rest at dawn on May 17, 1876. The detachment headed south towards the Balkan Mountains in order to support the uprising in the Second Sliven Revolutionary District. After three battles, the voivode Tanyo Stoyanov died on Kerchan Bair near the village of Aprilovo. After the death of the voivode, the detachment was defeated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main livelihood of a part of the Kosui population is fishing. Another part is engaged in agriculture and cattle breeding. Basically, agriculture in this region continues with the traditional grain crops (wheat, barley, oats, millet, legumes and fodder), and in the first half of the 19th century, corn and potatoes began to be grown. In the villages along the Danube coast, many vineyards, vegetables, watermelons, and melons are grown. Agriculture is developing slowly and painfully in an extensive way, due to the low level of agricultural machinery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On February 28, 1870, the Turkish government issued a decree to establish an autonomous Bulgarian church under the name of Exarchate, which put an end to the Bulgarian-Greek church dispute. In 1873, a Bulgarian municipality was elected in Tutrakan. It was called into existence by the increased needs of the economic and cultural and educational life of the Bulgarian population. By decision of the Exarchate, the municipalities in the ghazal (district) centers, such as Tutrakan, were transformed into mixed ghazal councils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In larger villages such as Bulgarian Kosui (Pozharevo), the Kazalian council organized elections for councils of elders to manage the local affairs of the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pozharevo after the Liberation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the decrees of the Berlin Congress of 1878, compact masses of Bulgarians settled in Tutrakan. More than 65 Bulgarians, refugees from the Edirne and Lozengrad regions, settled in the village of Bulgarian Kosui. The local population called them “G\u00f6chlii” (from the Turkish word “G\u00f6ch” – basket). G\u00f6chlii, because they came with baskets in which they took the most necessary things (clothes and food) and left together with the retreating Russian troops. Their goal was “Great Russia”, but winter caught them on the banks of the Danube River in Tutrakan and the authorities settled them in the village. They laid the foundation for the G\u00f6chlii neighborhood. In addition to it, depending on the settlers, there were also “Turkish neighborhood”, “Gabrovska” and “Kolonistka neighborhood” in the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Liberation of Bulgaria, according to the administrative-territorial division, the village was included in the Tutrakan district, Dolno Ryahovo municipality as a constituent village, together with Kad\u0131k\u00f6y (present-day village of Malak Preslavets) and Spanchov (present-day village of Dunavets).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On December 19, 1899, about 500 farmers, residents of Tutrakan and the villages of Zafirovo, Malak Preslavets, Dolno Ryahovo, Dunavets, Pozharevo, Bogdantsi, Tarnovtsi, Krasnogor, Sofiytsi, Tsarev Dol, Antimovo, Kosara, Bratimir, St. Karadzha, Belitsa, Horozlar flocked to the city. They gathered at the People’s Party club for a protest rally organized by the People’s Party and unanimously protested against the tithe law introduced by the government, because it was “ruinous” for farmers. The participants in the rally urgently asked the people’s representatives to repeal it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first decade of the 20th century, the profitability of fishing increased and about thirty families from Pozharevo found a livelihood in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The disastrous results of usury and greengrocery are evidenced by data for the period 1898-1900. At that time, there were 18 \u201ccompletely ruined\u201d villages in the Tutrakan district. Among them was the village of Bulgarian Kosuy. The villagers fell under the oppression of the usurers and for protection in 1908 they founded their own \u201cAgricultural Savings Mutual Society \u201cPlough\u201d. Many then left for Argentina and some stayed there forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the signing of the Bucharest Peace Treaty of July 28, 1913, the village passed into the borders of the Kingdom of Romania. A regime of assimilation of the local population began. It was forbidden to speak Bulgarian, the Bulgarian school was closed, and in the church, religious services were held in Romanian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the period 1914-1916, construction of a modern military field facility began according to a design by French and Belgian military specialists. By March 1916, both defensive lines were built. The main one included 15 forts located in a semicircle around the city and the villages of Staro Selo, Shumentsi, Antimovo, and Pozharevo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the eve of the war, in August 1916, 691 people were interned from Tutrakan, and 2,293 from the district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

29 people were abducted and interned from Pozharevo. The internees were put in slaughterhouses, prisons and concentration camps, where about three-quarters of the abducted Dobrudzians died from cold, hunger, disease, hard labor and torture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The units of the 3rd Bulgarian Army, on September 1st to 2nd, 1916, crossed the Dobrudja border from the Danube to the Black Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the start of hostilities, the Romanian authorities and the retreating Romanian troops committed mass kidnappings and atrocities in many Dobrudja towns and villages. During their retreat, the Romanian troops burned down almost the entire village, leaving about 10 houses untouched by the fire. The school building was also burned down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

26 escaped Bulgarians from the villages of Belitsa and Antimovo, Tutrakansko provide information about the organization and armament of the Tutrakan fortress on September 2, 1916. The information includes information about the fortifications of the eastern and southeastern fronts, where they were located on the Antimovo and Bulgarian Kosuy ridges. There are 3 forts: 1. No. 13 north of the road opposite the canton and 2. No. 14 in the middle of this ridge (south of Kosuy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what Radi Moskov tells about the unfortunate fate of two Pozharevo soldiers, recorded in the book “Scientific Expedition to Dobrudja, 1917.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“On August 24th, the day our troops captured the town of Tutrakan, the Romanians were at their most ferocious. My house is located above the garden of the police station, from where I watched with my wife, with the curtains drawn, as the soldiers gathered all the more alert citizens and villagers of the district to the garden. At about 10 o’clock, cars carrying military equipment passed through the same square. The cars stopped in the square and all the drivers moved aside to join the citizens who had gathered earlier. Two boys from the village of Bulgarian Kosui (today’s village of Pozharevo), I think, had barely unharnessed their horses when they were shot by sailors who had been sent to the town from the steamers to kill and burn. The older boy was shot in the face and as he fell, he made a sign as if he was crossing himself, and the younger one was shot in the back…”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The capture of the modern, well-fortified Romanian Tutrakan fortress at the very beginning of the hostilities provided the flank of the 3rd Army advancing into Dobrudja, but Bulgaria lost the First World War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Treaty of Neuilly in 1919, Southern Dobrudja again passed into the borders of the Kingdom of Romania. The same regime of assimilation of the local population continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letter from the newspaper Dobrudzhansko Zname from July 1, 1919 reveals the terror of the Wallachian police against the Bulgarians in the village, provides information about the endless unpaid labor that the Kosui people do, and that a company was stationed to protect the local population from “commies”, but in fact terrorized them. In the newspaper Dobrudzha from November 17, 1927, the atrocities of the local Romanian authorities are described: “On September 3, 1927, the famous Bulgarian murderer Choti with gangs of tsintsari attacked the village of Bulgarian Kosui for no reason and began a mass beating of the Bulgarians. Pencho Yu. Krolov, brothers Georgi and Dimitar Bogdanovi, Marin Penev were beaten to death. About 30 more people were beaten. A large part of the population of Denizler, Spanchov, B. Kosuy, Viskoy, Sarsanlar have fled to Tutrakan and are afraid to return to the villages for fear of falling into the hands of the gangs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between 1919 and 1928, several thousand families emigrated from Tutrakan and the villages of Pozharevo, Shumentsi, Zafirovo, Belitsa, Syanovo, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The library work is modest and covers only the preservation of Romanian-language literature and Romanian teaching materials. In addition to the library of the Romanian cultural society (cercul cultural) and some school libraries in the district center of Tutrakan, other public libraries also functioned in the territory of the district towards the end of the Romanian administration, such as the National Library at the Cultural Center “Mircea Stari” in the village of Pozharevo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On July 1, 1920, Gani Mirchev, a 70-year-old man from the village of Bulgarian Kosuy, was captured by the ferocious Wallachian police as the “leader of the committees”, beaten to such an extent that any human physiognomy was erased from him. His mustache, beard and hair were pulled out, his face was skinned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radul Ivan Kara Mishev, 23 years old, also from the village of Bulgarian Kosui, was taken to the Silistra prison because he had a father and brother in Bulgaria who were “commits” and who came to Kosui, and he did not report this to the authorities. For this “crime” he was taken to prison, where he was beaten so much that he went insane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Turkish hodja was forbidden to shout at the mosque, because this was a sign of intercourse with the komits, who were lying in the surrounding forests or hidden in the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 3, 1927, the famous Bulgarian murderer Choti Alexandrescu and gangs of tsintsari attacked the village of Bulgarian Kosui for no reason and began a mass beating of the Bulgarians. Pencho Y. Krolov, brothers Georgi and Dimitar Bogdanov, and Marin Penev were beaten to death. About 30 more people were beaten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1928. In Viskoy, Kosuy and Kadikoy \u2013 17 villagers were arrested on charges of having taken part in fictional comity gangs. They would be released after their money was recovered. These scenes of vandalism were arranged by several leaders such as: Choti, Papa Traian, Kola, who acted under the inspiration of Aktiunia Romaniasca and \u201cCultul Patriei\u201d provided with lawyers and magistrates. In the prefecture of Silistra alone, 1800 applications for emigration passports were filed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 1933, teachers from all the Tutrakan schools founded a cultural society with chairman Andrei Zhulivan. Its first manifestation was the holding of a music and dance festival on August 6, 1933, which became a holiday for the local residents. The cultural society is a Romanian form of cultural activity and lecture propaganda in places. According to information from 1936, such societies exist in the following settlements in the district: in the town of Tutrakan \u2013 headed by A. Stoichescu; in Staro Selo \u2013 with N. Ni\u021bu; in Pozharevo \u2013 with Gr. Voescu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the signing of the Treaty of Craiova in 1940, the Romanian colonists were evicted and Bulgarians from Northern Dobrudja arrived in their place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pozharevo after September 9, 1944<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main livelihood of the population is agriculture and fishing. The catch of river fish increased significantly after the construction of a fish farm at the “Fish Farming” enterprise – Tutrakan, with a stocked area of \u200b\u200b300 decares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May 1949, Varban Angelov was dismissed from the post of chairman of the Provisional Administration of the Village People’s Council – Pozharevo and Dimitar Nedelchev was appointed in his place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 1954 to 1958, the Village People’s Council of Workers’ Deputies – the village of Pozharevo was an independent municipality, and since 1959 it has been part of the Tutrakan Municipality. Since 1979, it has been a mayoralty within the Tutrakan Municipality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Church<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1874, the Holy Trinity Church was built. The building is a single-nave basilica, built of stone with walls about one meter thick. It was consecrated in 1880. The iconostasis is paneled, only the royal doors have woodcarving. The three royal icons were painted by Vasil Mihalev in 1875. The bell tower is northwest of the temple, built of metal elements. There is a donation inscription in Romanian on the bell. It was cast on October 30, 1931 in Bucharest. In addition to the names of the donors, the name of the then parish priest Alexandru Panaytescu is also recorded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because the church is dug into the ground, it often floods during heavy rains. In 1940, the Romanian priest took with him all the baptism and burial registers, with the exception of those from 1937 to 1940. In 1942, during a major flood, about one meter of water entered the church. It was also flooded in 1969, and in 1986, after heavy rain, the water level in the church reached one meter. The concrete ditch in front of the church protects it from flooding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

School<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The establishment of the school in the village is directly related to the church and its activities and is associated with the name of teacher Stani, who has been a priest in the village since 1872. In 1874, a school was opened and a separate building was built for it, with one teacher and 40 male and 6 female students. In a report on the primary schools in the Principality from 1899\/1900, it is stated that in the village of Bulgarski Kosui there are two mixed schools – one Bulgarian and one Turkish. In the Bulgarian school, two teachers work and 40 boys and 13 girls are educated, and in the Turkish school, 1 teacher teaches 25 boys and 15 girls. In the following years, the following teachers worked: teacher Stani (1872\u20131874), Petar Mihaylov (1883\u20131905), Ruska Dimitrova (1901\u20131902), Georgi Zografov (1908\u20131909), Milena Georgieva and Marin Mitev from Ruse, Manol Nikolov, Nikola Penev (1910-1912). The school was closed in 1916. In 1921, a new building was built for the school. It was built on a labor basis, with the bricks being made by the villagers, and the timber also being transported by them. In 1940, after the signing of the Craiova Agreement, the Bulgarian school was reopened. But the building was not enough for the students and they studied in two shifts. There were no corridors. The last director was Hristo Rusanov.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cyril and Methodius Public Primary School – Pozharevo village is the successor to the school established in 1881, which was housed in private homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The school was closed in the 1969\/70 school year due to a decline in the number of students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community center<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 1884, community center activities began in the village. The mosque building was initially used as a community center, which was renovated and rebuilt after the Turks left in 1934-1935 – a stage, balcony, and a room for projecting films were built. In December 1940, an evening school was opened for young people to learn to read and write in Bulgarian, led by priest Hristo Popov. On January 8, 1941, the community center “New Life” was founded with 110 members. A governing body was elected with priest Hristo Popov as chairman. The community center activists collected the sum of 12,000 leva to purchase a radio and furnish the community center. The new community center building was built with the voluntary labor of the local population during the time of mayor Stefan Andreev in 1962-1963.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TCZS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Labor Cooperative Agricultural Farm (TCAF) “G. Dimitrov” – village of Pozharevo was established in 1948. It included 32 households. The first chairman was Iliyan Velikov. In 1949, there was one branch – crop production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Labor Cooperative Agricultural Farm “Dunav” – the village of Dunavets was founded in 1949. In 1958, the cooperative merged with the one in the village of Pozharevo, and at a later stage with the one in Tutrakan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1958, the unification of the farms began, at a general meeting it was decided to unite with the TKZS “Hristo Botev” – Tutrakan. The farms of the villages of Pozharevo, Dunavets, Tsarev Dol, Antimovo and Tarnovtsi passed to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lands near the village are cultivated by the Agro-Industrial Complex – Tutrakan. The main livelihood of the population is agriculture and fishing. The catch of river fish has increased significantly after the construction of a fish farm at the “Fish Farming” enterprise – Tutrakan, with a stocked area of \u200b\u200b300 decares. The water areas, forests, the island and the beach are an attractive place for recreation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The TKZS was liquidated in 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pozharevo after the democratic changes in 1989.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main livelihood of the population after 1989 is agriculture. The TKZS has been liquidated and there is no agricultural cooperative on the territory of the village, the land is cultivated by private tenants and the agricultural cooperative “Dunav”, Dunavets village with chairman Milen Trifonov.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the early 1990s, the extraction of river ballast has been moved from the port in Tutrakan to the village of Pozharevo. On the banks of the Danube River, there is a dredge for the extraction of inert materials owned by the company “Inert” Ltd. – Ruse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The official holiday of the village is connected to the church holiday of the Holy Spirit, on which the village assembly also takes place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stefan Varbanov (1961\u20131972), Hristo Rusanov (1980-1989), Arsen Todorov Arsenov from the village of Dunavets (1989\u20131991), Georgi Yordanov Sofroniev (1991\u2013 ) worked as mayors of the settlement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Memorable places<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The protected area “Saya Kulak”<\/strong> is located 13 km from Tutrakan. It was declared a historical site, the area was re-categorized in 2003 into a protected area for the protection of a territory with characteristic ecosystems and landscapes. The place is directly related to the national liberation struggles of the Bulgarian people. Here in 1867, the detachment of P. Hitov with standard-bearer V. Levski landed. In 1876, the path of the detachment of Tanyo Voivoda began from here, the second detachment in support of the April Uprising of 1876. Every year, the march “In the footsteps of the detachment of Tanyo Voivoda” begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A memorial plaque near the village of Pozharevo<\/strong> was unveiled in 1976 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the April Uprising. Near the place where the detachments of Panayot Hitov crossed the Danube in 1867 and Tanyo Voivoda in 1876. The plaque has a 4-line inscription:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here they have set foot on native soil<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

you read on<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panayot Hitov on 29. IV.1867<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tanyo Stoyanov on 16.V. 1876<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The memorial plaque is part of the route of the annual National March “On the Path of Tanyo Voivoda’s Detachment”. Citizens, students and marchers pay tribute to it, lay wreaths and flowers in front of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources<\/em> :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dobrudzha newspaper, Babadag, No. 10, July 18, 1917. Dobrudzhansko zname, Sofia, No. 9, July 1, 1921; History of Tutrakan, 2010. Encyclopedia Tutrakan, 2023. Mutafov, V. History of the temples in the Ruse diocese. Part two. 2021. Silistra; Iliev, B. From Pozharevo, Tutrakan region to Aprilovo, Popovsko region. On the path of the detachment of Tanyo voivode from 1876. S. 1996; Encyclopedia Tutrakan, T., 2023; Ethnography of Tutrakan, ed. Gutenberg, 2022. Settlement system Tutrakan, Handbook, ed. Bulgarreklama, Sofia, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/libsilistra.bg\/index.php\/10-2017-02-08-13-49-00\/912-2020-11-27-12-56-49.html <\/a>https:\/\/www.nsi.bg\/nrnm\/reports\/population\/list\/3690<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.bulgariancastles.com\/s-pozharevo-krepost-vm-postat<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.nsi.bg\/statlib\/bg\/lister.php?iid=DO-010000010&page=105<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/promacedonia.org\/dobr1917\/dobr1917_3_6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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