VENETS: the Belogradchik journal for local history, cultural heritave and folk studies

261-271

Authors: V. Kachev

This collection contains six poems. All of them are written by Valentin Kachev in December 2016. Valentin Kachev is from the town of Belogradchik. He is a member both of the Union of the Bulgarian Writers and of the Union of the Russian Writers.

283-331

Authors: F. Stefanova Strigacheva

"Pages from the past" are recollections written in 1970's by Ferdinanda - Venka Stefanova Strigacheva (1897-1976). A large period of time after 1910 is covered. She was born in the village of Targovishte, Belogradchik region. She graduated from the Secondary School for Girls in Vidin. Then she became a teacher. Later she studied agronomy in Wien and Berlin. Ferdinanda Strigacheva was an active and influential communist. However, when the communists became in power in Bulgaria in the autumn of 1944, she left aside from the policy disappointed from the actions of the Bulgarian Communist Party; nevertheless, Strigacheva kept her loyalty to the Party and beliefs into the communism. Strigacheva's son Dr. Atanas Strigachev and his son Dr. Anton Strigachev prepared the text for publishing, mainly with changing the spelling into the modern one.

359-375

Authors: E. Kozhuharova

The 15th Infantry Lom Regiment was founded in 1889. It is included in the 6th Bdin Division until its disbandment in 1945. The combat flag of the regiment leads the brave Lom soldiers in five wars – Serbian-Bulgarian War (1885), Balkan Wars (1912-1913), World War I (1915-1918) and World War II (1941-1945). This article aims to present the nominations for military awards of the combat flag, as well as the already awarded decorations, enlisted in the service book of the flag. The details of saving and recapturing the combat flag during the capture of 15th Lom Regiment after the World War I, for which it was decorated, were described as well as the name of the recipients. The Award Decorations list of the flag is presented in full text as well as the motives for awarding the flag with military bravery order.

390-399

Authors: B.V. Toshev

A collection of rare books about Belogradcjik