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SHUMENTSI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location<\/strong> \u2013 located 13 km southwest of the municipal center of Tutrakan, 3 km from the village of Varnentsi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Old name<\/strong> \u2013 Deider. Renamed in 1942 in memory of the 19th Shumen Infantry Regiment, a participant in the battles around the village in 1916, in the Tutrakan epic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

1881 \u2013 545 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1888 \u2013 633 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1893 \u2013 599 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1900 \u2013 702 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1905 \u2013 895 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1910 \u2013 1001 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1934 \u2013 940 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1941 \u2013 947 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1946 \u20131043 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1985 \u2013 937 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2000 \u2013 650 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2011 \u2013 514 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021 \u2013 354 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 \u2013 347 people<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

          The village of Shumentsi is present on the Archaeological Map of Bulgaria with a settlement in the Daptyka area. It is 2.2 km away with a 70 \u00b0 azimuth from the city hall. Valley slope with a northeasterly exposure. Altitude 70 \u2013 80 m. Area about 25 acres. Found sherds from the Late Iron Age (hand and wheeled), the Roman era and the First Bulgarian Kingdom. Small concentration, even distribution. It is possible that the site continues further east, where there are trees and unplowed fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The earliest information about the origin of the village dates back to the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries. According to local residents, the settlement arose in the Dabtaka area – about 2.5 km east of its current location, according to others, the village was located 1.5 km southwest of its current location, but a plague epidemic forced people to move to save themselves from the disease, burning the village to the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to local residents of the place where the village is today, around 1634, Deli Khadar (Mad Khadar), Aydar or Daydar, was the first to settle with his family. Turkish and Circassian families moved to the settlement and named the village after its first settler, Daydar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to an extract from the Ottoman register of households, residents, buildings, lands and taxes of Tutrakan and Tutrakanska kaza, according to the old and new census in the village of Dali Khadr in 1870: 1. Households (inns) \u2013 45. 2. Residents of Islamic origin (Turks) \u2013 162 people. Total population \u2013 162 people, according to the old census. Households (inns), according to the new census: Households (inns) \u2013 93. 1. Residents of Gypsy origin \u2013 Muslims 2 people. 2. Residents of Islamic origin (Turks) \u2013 191 people. Total population, according to the new census \u2013 193 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Russo-Turkish War of Liberation (1877\u20131878) and after it, the Turkish beys, hodjas, Circassians and a large number of Turkish peasants, gripped by religious fanaticism and fear, fueled by foreign propaganda, left their lands and fled south to Constantinople and Asia Minor. As a result of this flight, a large number of farms and smaller farms remained free. After the Liberation, the migratory flow of Balkan people flowed into the Tutrakan region. Here there is water and pasture for livestock, there is free land and houses for everyone. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were also migrants from the Balkans in the village of Dayder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

After the Liberation, the village was administratively and territorially included in the Tutrakan district within the municipality of Denizler (Varnentsi), together with the constituent villages of Belitsa and Meshe mahle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the beginning of the 20th century, Bulgarian Christian families from the Elena Balkan began to settle, attracted by the flat and fertile land. Some practiced crafts, others were engaged in animal husbandry, with sheep being the most common breed. The settlers \u2013 Balkan farmers \u2013 bought land from the Turkish population, who sold them the properties, along with the houses and livestock, and they emigrated en masse to Turkey. Thus, by 1910, the Bulgarian population outnumbered the Turkish population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          In 1911, an Agricultural Friendship Association was established in the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On July 28, 1913, the Bucharest Peace Treaty was signed, ending the Inter-Allied War and according to its clauses, Bulgaria was forced to cede most of Macedonia to its former allies, Aegean Macedonia to Greece, and Southern Dobrudja to Romania. The village of Dayder passed into the borders of the Kingdom of Romania. A regime of assimilation of the local population began, it was forbidden to speak Bulgarian, and religious services were held in Romanian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Battle of Tutrakan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Romanians began construction of the Tutrakan fortified camp. The activity of building the forts was accelerated and carried out exclusively by the forcibly mobilized Bulgarian population of Tutrakan, including the population of the village of Dayder. A second defensive line was also built, equipping trenches and shelters for the troops with dugouts against artillery fire, with internal shelters for the troops. As early as July 1914, a special commission was appointed to oversee the construction of the fortress. In 1916, the Romanian government decided to complete the construction of the fortifications in March of this year. And indeed, by March, 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, Pozharevo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 5-7 km behind the main defense line is a second one with trenches, machine gun nests, wire fences, etc. Some of the building materials were taken by force from them, the residents of Deider, who carried grain to their warehouses with their carts. It was bought at a minimum price. The cattle were driven from the meadows to serve later for food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 1, 1916, Bulgaria declared war on Romania and the Bulgarian-Romanian border was crossed by the soldiers of the 3rd Bulgarian Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 3, 1916, the 4th Preslav Division, after a short, lively battle, drove the enemy from his forward positions at the village of Dayder – Chaush Mahle (now deleted). At 9 o’clock in the evening, two Romanian companies tried to carry out a night attack against the left flank of the division, but were repulsed. The division headquarters settled in Dayder – 1.5 km from the enemy. The 1st Sofia Division established itself on the Viskoy line (now Tsarev Dol village) to the crossroads of Endzhe Koy (now Preslavtsi village) – Belitsa. Major Hammerstein’s column captured the positions west of Staro Selo and northeast of Syanovo village. In this way, the ring around Tutrakan was already ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 6:30 a.m. on September 5, according to the order of General Kiselov, artillery preparation began. The firing was conducted with the greatest speed that the gun system allowed. At 7:40 a.m., the auxiliary observer at Deider, Lieutenant Dobrev, reported that Romanian soldiers from the trenches around fortifications No. 5 and 6 began to run along the zigzag communication passages. The power of the fire surprised the enemy. The Romanian fortress artillery was upset and forced to fall silent. The shocking impression of the artillery fire is evident from General Teodorescu’s reports to the headquarters in Bucharest, that the fortress was being shelled by 305 mm guns, which were not available at Tutrakan. Despite the devastating fire, the desired results were not achieved – the destruction of the strongholds, the complete choking of the Romanian artillery and the destruction of the artificial obstacles. Nevertheless, Colonel Angelov reported to General Kiselov at 7:57 a.m. that the attack was well prepared and the infantry could proceed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the direction of the main attack \u2013 forts No. 5, 6 and 7, the attack was carried out by the two brigades of the 4th Preslav Division. The third brigade of Colonel Kmetov, according to the operational order of General Kiselov, attacked forts No. 5 and 6 and the intermediate trenches. It included the 19th Shumen Regiment of Colonel Anton Dyakov, which, supported by the 48th Infantry Regiment of Colonel Hristo Enchev, with the 1st and 3rd companies, moved against fort No. 6, and the 2nd and 4th companies \u2013 against fort No. 5, a section least affected by the Bulgarian artillery. Counting that by the time the 19th Shumen Regiment reached the main defensive line, the artillery would be able to complete the destruction, Colonel Dyakov ordered the attack on both columns. The regiment descended the slope of the village of Deider, which was located right in front of the enemy, and was met with a hurricane of machine gun, rifle and artillery fire from the turret guns, but supported by the field batteries that came to the rescue, at 9:35 am Fort No. 6 fell, and at 11 am Fort No. 5 was also captured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the capture of the Main Defense Line by the Strike Group, in the area of \u200b\u200bthe main attack, General Kiselov ordered the attack to continue in depth, as the enemy should not be allowed to retake the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 6:25 p.m. on September 6, General Kiselov reported to the commander of the 3rd Army, General Toshev: ” Today, after a long battle, at about 4 p.m., the enemy was pushed back from the Second Defense Line and our units entered Tutrakan<\/em> .”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The victory at Tutrakan, as well as the defeat of the enemy at Dobrich, marked the successful beginning of the liberation campaign in Dobrudja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In memory of the soldiers of the Third Bulgarian Army who died near Tutrakan, immediately after the battle, the construction of a memorial tomb began on the site of the Romanian fort No. 6 near the village of Shumentsi. Immediately after the capture of the town, its entire population and that of the surrounding villages buried the dead Bulgarians, Germans and Romanians in separate fraternal mounds for days. The headquarters of the Fourth Preslav Division decided to build a national park with an ossuary-chapel, but by the end of the war only the so-called “Brotherly Mound” had been created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          On September 5, 1917, the first commemoration of the battle was held, attended by relatives and descendants of the fallen, as well as the hero of Tutrakan, Gen. Pantelei Kiselov. He arrived in Tutrakan on a captured Russian transport ship, solemnly welcomed by the mayor of the city and the entire citizenry. After the representative parade in front of the Tutrakan municipality, everyone headed to the Dayder Fort to pay homage to the memory of the heroes. The Tutrakan Charity Committee to commemorate the anniversary built an arch and a large stone cross for bravery, which have now been restored and rebuilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Second Romanian occupation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early December 1918, the residents of the villages of Varnentsi, Meshe Mahle and Shumentsi complained to Minister Tonchev that the Romanian authorities “systematically did everything to depopulate their villages”, asking him to intercede before the Brest-Litovsk Conference to compensate the peasants, “so that Romanian stupidity, barbarity and dishonor would not go unpunished”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On January 2, 1919, the population of the villages of the municipalities of Staro Selo, Varnentsi and the village of Shumentsi gathered in Staro Selo and protested “before the English commandant there, that the population is Bulgarian and in no way do not want to have a Romanian administration” (it is explicitly stated that the population is Bulgarian, because on December 3, 1918, the English commandant of Silistra, Colonel Matthews, obviously manipulated by Romanian propaganda, ordered the Bulgarians from the Silistra district to emigrate by December 8). On January 3, about 4,000 people from Tutrakan and villagers from Varnentsi, Antimovo, Belitsa, Dunavets and Shumentsi, led by priest Byanov, gathered on the heights near Tutrakan. They presented to the English commandant in the city a resolution \u2013 a protest, signed by 2000 people, with a request to restore the Bulgarian administration in the city and the district and not to close the Bulgarian schools and to allow the Bulgarian priests to serve in the churches. On January 18, a delegation with regular credentials from the population of 27 villages from the Tutrakan district arrived in Varna with a request, which the chairman of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian National Socialists, Dr. Iv. Ognyanov, handed over to the commander of the British occupation army in Southern Dobrudja (26th Division), Major General H. V. Didswell. On January 25, in a written response, the general announced that the British occupation army had the obligation to “establish and support the Romanian authorities”, that it was “responsible for any disturbances, whether caused by the resistance of the Bulgarians to the Romanian authorities, or as a result of illegalities on the part of the Romanian authorities”, and insisted: “The Bulgarian population must obey the Romanian authorities”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          On November 27, 1919, Bulgaria signed the Treaty of Neuilly and Southern Dobrudja again passed into the borders of the Kingdom of Romania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the period between the two world wars, mass pilgrimages and commemorations could not take place at the Memorial. The local population took care of the Military Cemetery first and foremost. Over the years, a significant part of the names were erased, which is why today there are many graves with the inscription \u201cunknown\u201d. The cemetery is surrounded, there is a small bell tower with an inscription on the bell on the periphery in Romanian, the words from the monument-obelisk, which the local population erected in 1922. According to the only preserved document, it is described that the monument was built by \u201cthe peasants of Dayr and was transported in parts\u201d and thus assembled. The words are written on it in four languages \u200b\u200b\u2013 Bulgarian, Romanian, German and Ottoman Turkish: \u201cHonor and glory to those who knew how to die heroically for their homeland\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          As a border territory that was subject to special measures, the Tutrakan district was strongly affected by this migration process. 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 Romanian state settled many Romanian families in Southern Dobrudja, including 30 families in the village of Deider. According to the memories of the local population, they lived peacefully with the Bulgarian population. Mixed marriages also appeared. The colonists were given land with the best and most fertile land of Deider. They were given fields of 50 to 90 decares, vineyards and gardens of 10 decares each, 2,400 decares of yard space with dwellings located in the northern end of the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1928, a dozen Macedonian families settled in the village. They fled from their native places in Vardar Macedonia. The settled Macedonians were called “Tsintsari”. On December 6, 1929, the Bulgarians clashed with the Macedonians. In the hand-to-hand combat, they gouged out the eye of one of the Macedonians. The Tsintsari were expelled from the village. The process reached the court in Silistra – 30-40 Bulgarian villagers paid the Macedonian’s eye – 500,000 Romanian lei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1935, the War Tomb was renovated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 1935 and the beginning of 1936, an Agronomic Station was built in the village of Daider, the purpose of which was to assist in improving local agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a windmill on the Shumentsi – Zafirovo road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shumen after the Craiova Agreement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 7, 1940, an agreement was signed between Bulgaria and Romania in the Romanian city of Craiova. The terms of the agreement required the Kingdom of Romania<\/a> to return the territory of Southern Dobrudja to <\/a>the Kingdom of Bulgaria<\/a> , and also to carry out an exchange of the population from Northern Dobrudja<\/a> and Southern Dobrudja<\/a> . After the liberation of Southern Dobrudja from Romanian occupation, the mayor of the village was Yordan Simeonov.<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Treaty of Craiova and the peaceful return of Southern Dobrudja to the Fatherland on September 21, 1940, Tutrakan was already a free city. Upon entering Tutrakan, the fighters of the 5th Danube Regiment, led by the Minister of War, General Teodosii Daskalov, paid military honors at the Military Cemetery. This renewed the tribute to those who died in the battle after more than two decades, because the memorial service of September 5 and 6, 1917, with the participation of thousands of relatives of the fallen soldiers who participated in the battles, turned out to be the first and last national commemoration for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the years of socialism, the tradition remained that annually on the first Sunday of September, veterans and participants in the memorable battles and thousands of people would spontaneously flock to the Military Cemetery to pay homage to the memory of the heroes and lay flowers and wreaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tutrakan district was formed on October 23, 1940 within the Shumen region by an order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Public Health regarding the proclamation of temporary municipalities in the newly annexed territory to Bulgaria \u2013 Dobrudzha. It also includes the Municipality of Belitsa, which includes the villages of Belitsa, Daydar, Denizler, Meshe mahle. The Municipal Council takes care of the public welfare of the municipality. It is an elected body, elected by the population for a certain period of time and elects the mayor and assistant mayor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

In 1908, there were already settled Christians in 60 houses in the village, they decided to build a church. On December 10, 1908, a village assembly was held, chaired by the deputy mayor K. Kostadinov and the honorary village elders. The participants in the assembly elected the first church trustees in the village: Stoyan Todorov, Ivan Yurdanov and Ivan Iliev. They were authorized to collect funds for the construction of a church in the village. In a letter to the Metropolitanate, Father Brachkov wrote: \u201cIn 1947, with the assistance of pious Christians, we made hand-made bricks and delivered quarry stone for the construction of a temple. The family of Ivan Stoyanov from this village made a donation for the upcoming construction of 60,000 leva, which was reflected in the Church Gazette of 1948.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1949, the Trustees were granted 3,500 roof tiles and the Diocesan Council approved the protocol with the request to begin construction of a new church. The following year, 700 foundation stones and 40,000 bricks were purchased with donations from Christians. The construction of the chapel was to begin in 1953 after the projects were ready. In 1956, the trustees had projects and documents for the construction of the church, but they did not have 158,000 leva to begin construction. In 1960, the collected building materials were seized by the village council and used – one part for the construction of a foreman’s house, and the other for the construction of the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1969, the old bell tower in the village was almost demolished, and the plot of land on which it was located was a report from the municipality for public needs – for the construction of a nursery. The city hall proposed that the bell tower be moved to the cemetery, but the Christians did not agree. The village resident Petar Neshev donated 9 sq. m. of his yard, located next to the village park, where a new bell tower was erected. The abbots built the bell tower without the permission of the Metropolitanate and without the knowledge of the parish priest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first project for a church in the village dates back to 1955, prepared by arch. Malchev from “Sinproekt” – Sofia, but it was not realized. In 1992, a project for a church was prepared by engineer Hristov. The building has a built-up area of \u200b\u200b176 sq. m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Church of St. George the Victorious is the first Orthodox church in the village. Until then, laypeople visited the church in the neighboring village of Varnentsi. The church was built after a request from the village residents to the Metropolitanate. Construction began on August 23, 1993. The initiators of the construction were the parish priest Petar Koychev Georgiev, the deputy mayor Atanas Lalev and the chairman of the Commission for the Distribution of Share Capital to the Shumentsi Community Church Haralan Stoyanov, supported by the Church Board and the Christians in the village. The rough construction was done in 133 days, and the overall work on the church took only two years, 1993-1995. The church was finally completed in September 1995. The consecration was performed on October 8 of the same year by Metropolitan Neophyte in a concelebration with Metropolitan Kirill of Varna and Veliko Preslav, Metropolitan Gelasius, Bishop Anthony of Provat, Archimandrite Lawrence, 12 priests and two deacons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The icons were painted by the icon painter \u2013 Archpriest Vladimir Velikov \u2013 hierarchal vicar of the city of Provadia. It was consecrated in October 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The temple is the only one in the region whose courtyard, in addition to beautifully arranged flower circles, also has patriotic panels showing moments from the glorious Bulgarian history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is also a Muslim temple in the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

According to the Extract for Tutrakan District from the Statistics of Primary Schools in the Principality of Bulgaria in the 1899\/1900 school year, there was one mixed Turkish school with 60 students in the village near the mosque. In 1902, a National Primary Mixed School was opened. The first teacher and director was Georgi Zagorov from Babadag. The school was housed in a state building, which consisted of two classrooms and an office. It was used until 1948.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 1902 to 1913, students were educated in one combined class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the period of the first Romanian occupation (1913 \u2013 1916), the Bulgarian school was converted into a Romanian school, and education was conducted in the Romanian language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the period 1917 \u2013 1919, the teacher in the village was Elena Balkanska from Tutrakan. The Tutrakan teacher Petar Mavrodinov (1873 \u2013 1952) stands out as a leading figure in the attempts to defend Bulgarian education in the Tutrakan region. After the Second Dobrudzha Council in Babadag in 1918, together with the teacher Petrana Ivanova from the village of Denizler (Varnentsi), he organized the opening of Bulgarian schools in the Tutrakan district. In March 1920, a Military Court in Constanta sentenced him to prison on charges that in 1917 he had given a speech at the military cemetery near Shumentsi, that he had collected signatures under the protest resolution for the opening of Bulgarian schools, and that he had participated in the Dobrudzha Councils in Babadag in 1917-1918. and condemned the Romanian occupation for organizing a peasant revolt in Tutrakansko, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the second Romanian occupation from 1919 to 1940, there were two classes. In the 1930s, a building was also built for the primary school in Deidre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 1940, the school has been named “Hristo Botev”. Until 1949, the school was an elementary school, and then it was transformed into the “Hristo Botev” National Primary School – Shumentsi village, and it educated students from grades I-VIII.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On August 2, 1946, the foundations of a new school building were laid, which was completed during the 1949-1950 school year and teaching began in it. The building consists of an office, a gymnasium and two classrooms. In 1969, another wing of the school was built with two classrooms and an administrative wing. In the 1970s, two more classrooms, a corridor, a teacher’s room, a pioneer room, a kitchen and a canteen for students were built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A kindergarten was built in 1956, later used as a nursery. In 1963, a new kindergarten building was built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Order No. RD-14-64 of June 10, 2002 of the Ministry of Education and Science, the school was closed due to a persistent trend of decreasing numbers of children. The students living in the village were redirected to study at the Hristo Botev Secondary School in the town of Tutrakan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Turkish Primary School “Mustafa Suphi”<\/strong> in the village of Shumentsi was opened in 1947 and is housed in a private house. The first teacher was Turken Hasanova from Tutrakan. There was only one class in the first grade. In the 1956\/1957 school year, it was transformed from a primary school into a junior high school. In 1961, the school was closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shumen during the socialist period<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 1944, Shumentsi was a constituent village, together with the village of Dabravitsa, to the Rural Municipal Administration – Varnentsi. After 1959, it was successively a proxy to the SONS – Belitsa village, and since 1987 it has been a mayoralty to the Tutrakan Municipality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The population is engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry – a modern telecommunications complex and a sheep complex have been built, equipped with modern equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 1946, a football team was created in the village, with the help of teacher Lyuben Nakov from Razgrad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1952-1953 the village was electrified, in 1965-1966 the sewage system was completed. In 1968 the first streets and squares were asphalted. In 1966-1967 the park and flower alleys were laid out. In 1963 the oven and bakery building was built. The community center and cinema building was built in 1959 and demolished in 1981. A textile and knitwear store was built in 1964. The same year a shoe and electrical supplies store was also built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1968, a workshop was opened at the Kamashit enterprise, where wicker demijohns, baskets, etc. were woven. In 1976, the building of the town hall, the health service and the post office were built. In the fall of 1985, a workshop for special sewing products was opened at the 4th September factory in Tutrakan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A bakery has been opened in the village to produce bread and some products ordered by the residents of the Narcoop Tutrakan RPK. It supplies the residents of the villages of Shumentsi, Varnentsi and Brenitsa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1985, a “Special Sewing Production” workshop was opened at the “4th of September” factory in Tutrakan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1986, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the epic battle of Tutrakan, the construction of the Military Tomb near Tutrakan was carried out. Over 450 volunteer workdays were spent on this site. Over 80,000 leva were spent on the reconstruction of the military tomb in two and a half months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1988, a carpentry workshop began operating, and in the same year, water was brought in to irrigate the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of 1989, an automatic telephone exchange with a capacity of 200 posts was opened – 175 home and 25 office. The same year, a pensioner’s club was opened, which developed its activities in the confectionery building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consumer Cooperative (PC) “Napred” – Tutrakan was established in 1944 and by decision of the RKS – Tutrakan in 1955, the cooperatives from the villages of Pozharevo, Antimovo and Tsarev Dol were transferred to it, and in 1976 the assets and liabilities of the Food and Flavoring Plant “Nov Zhivot” – Tutrakan were merged. At general meetings in 2002 of the GPK “Narkoop” – Tutrakan and the cooperatives in the villages of Varnentsi, Tsar Samuil, Staro Selo and Shumentsi, a decision was made to merge them and form the United Consumer Cooperative “Dunav” – Tutrakan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Labor-cooperative agricultural farm “New Life” – village of Shumentsi was founded in 1955 with 37 households, 2476 decares of land contributed by them and 2520 decares of land of the State Land Fund. Georgi Yordanov Pantaleev was elected chairman. By 1958, the entire population of the village was cooperating and the land increased to 16,100 decares, of which 9500 belonged to the members. The same year, the farms in the villages of Shumentsi, Brenitsa, Varnentsi and Belitsa were united in the “D. Blagoev” Labor-cooperative Agricultural Farm – village of Belitsa. Brigade homes and nurseries were built with maintenance at the expense of the farm. From 1970 to 1972, the section in the village of Shumentsi passed to the Agricultural Complex – Tutrakan, and the equipment and the complex brigade were disbanded and transferred to the village of Varnentsi. From 1972 to 1982, the Agricultural Complex – Tutrakan was disbanded and the brigade was transferred as a section to the Agricultural Complex “Drustar” – Silistra with a branch farm in the village of Belitsa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this period, a Telecomplex with a capacity of 2000 heifers was built in the village. From 1983 to 1985, the section in the village of Shumentsi became the ZhFK of the Tutrakan branch farm. From 1985 to 1990, the villages of Shumentsi and Varnentsi were united in the Complex Brigade – village of Shumentsi. In 1990, the village of Varnentsi was separated and the farm became the TKZS “Hristo Botev” – village of Shumentsi, which operated until 1992, after which it was renamed the ZK “Nov Zhivot” – village of Shumentsi, which was later declared in liquidation, until its final closure in 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

In 1940, the Stefan Karadzha community center was founded, with 35 members. It carried out active cultural and educational activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The community center building is provided for free use with a total area of \u200b\u200b50 sq.m. It is private municipal property, cosmetic repairs were carried out according to a project in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The community center operates a library – works under the “Global Libraries” program, the “Bulgarian Libraries – Contemporary Centers for Reading and Information” program – 2021. The following groups have been formed at the community center: Dance Club “Deider”, a group for authentic folklore, a folk women’s choir, a folklore vocal group and a group for old town songs and hits; Group for old town songs and hits “Silver Leaf Fall”; Pensioner Women’s Choir; Folklore Vocal Group “Dobrudzhanki”; Group for authentic folklore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The community center’s holiday is November 1st – National Awakeners Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 1, 2018, a Monument to those who died in the wars for national unification was opened and consecrated in the village of Shumentsi<\/strong> . The names of the village residents who died during the Balkan, Inter-Allied, First and Second World Wars are inscribed on two marble steles. It is located in the center of Shumentsi, next to the City Hall building. The funds for the construction of the monument were provided by the National Initiative Committee for the Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the End of World War I. The monument replaces the previously existing memorial plaque with the names of those who died in World War II, which was made by local craftsmen Stoyan Stoyanov and Georgi Stoyanov and opened in 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shumen residents after the democratic changes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 1990, the Tutrakan epic was openly discussed, a number of historical studies and publications were published, and interesting details about these memorable events for Bulgaria and the Bulgarian people were revealed, which aroused general interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1996, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Tutrakan epic, the Municipality of Tutrakan and the Historical Museum-Tutrakan commissioned the development of a project for the restoration of the memorial approved by the National Institute of Historical and Cultural Heritage and financed by the National Foundation “13 Centuries of Bulgaria”, as a result of which, during its implementation, the alleys and individual graves were formed; the beginning of the Alley of Glory was laid, with the names of the deceased inscribed; the stone tombstone crosses were restored and the entrance to the memorial was formed with informational inscriptions about the military actions to capture the Tutrakan fortress. A solemn national celebration of the anniversary was organized with the participation of representatives of the executive and state authorities, headed by the Chairman of the National Assembly, Academician Blagovest Sendov. In 2002 A project for the spatial layout of the park area of \u200b\u200bthe “War Tomb-1916” Memorial was developed, which has already been implemented – a park was built, a majestic cross for bravery was erected, two “Krupp” howitzers were mounted on eternal guard, and the “St. George the Victorious” chapel was consecrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, the Memorial “Military Cemetery – 1916” in the village of Shumentsi, Tutrakan municipality was classified as a single immovable cultural property of “national importance”. On April 18, 2024, a new innovative museum site, the Memorial “Tutrakan Epic 1916”, was opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dimitrova, Y. Historical ethnographic and folklore studies of the village of Shumentsi. 1990; Boychev, P. The Tutrakan epic. Kovachev ed. 2005; Mutafov, V. History of the temples in the Ruse diocese, Part Two, Silistra, Kovachev ed., 2021; History of Tutrakan. Kovachev ed. 2010. Tutrakan Encyclopedia. Gutenberg ed. 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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