Krastyu Trichkov

Krastyu Sergeyev Trichkov (Bulgarian: Кръстю Сергеев Тричков; born 12 April 1923)[1] is a retired Bulgarian politician from the Bulgarian Communist Party. He served as the first First Deputy Chairmen of the State Council.[2]

Krastyu Sergeev Trichkov
First Deputy Chairman of the State Council
In office
7 July 1971 – 27 July 1972
PresidentTodor Zhivkov
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byGeorgi Traykov
Personal details
Born (1923-04-12) 12 April 1923
Belitsa, Kingdom of Bulgaria
Political partyBulgarian Communist Party (1947–1990), Independent (1990–present)

Biography

Trichkov was born in Belitsa, Razlog. He was the brother of the officer of the State Security Service Ivan Trichkov. From 1940 he was a member of the Workers' Youth League, and since 1942 – the PA. Participant in the resistance movement during the Second World War (1942–1944). From 1942 he was political commissar of the Razlog read.[3] After the coup d'état, he was secretary of the provincial committee of the YCL in Blagoevgrad and First Secretary of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party in Blagoevgrad from 1957 to 1971.[3]

From 1958 to 1962, he was a candidate member, and from 1962 on a full member, of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, where he remained until 1990. From 1966 to 1981 he was a candidate member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.[3] Between 1971 and 1976 he was first deputy chairman of the State Council, Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the Committee on State and People's Control (1976 to 1981). From 1981 to 1988, he was first vice-president of the National Council of the Fatherland Front.[2] In the period 1981–1986 he was a member of the State Council. In 1990 he retired.[3] He is the author of two volumes of memoirs.

References
  1. Profile of Krastyu Sergeyev Trichkov
  2. "Кръстю Тричков | Politburo". politburo.archives.bg.
  3. Пътеводител по мемоарните документи за БКП, съхранявани в Централния държавен архив. Архивни справочници, том 6 (PDF) (in Bulgarian). General Department of Archives of the Council of Ministers. 2003. Retrieved 27 November 2016.


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