Todor Zhivkov, Bulgarian police officer and politician, Head of State of Bulgaria (died 1998)

Todor Zhivkov

De facto leader of Communist Bulgaria from 1954 to 1989

Todor Hristov Zhivkov was a Bulgarian communist statesman who served as the de facto leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria (PRB) from 1954 until 1989 as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party. He was the second longest-serving leader in…

List of heads of state of Bulgaria

This is a list of the heads of the modern Bulgarian state, from the establishment of the Principality of Bulgaria to the present day.