A ceremonial academic session commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the April Uprising of 1876 will take place in Sofia on Monday. St Kliment Ohridski Sofia University noted that the April Uprising represented a significant, entirely Bulgarian undertaking whose outcome was pivotal in the consolidation of the Bulgarian nation’s struggle for freedom. To mark this major historical milestone, several institutions are collaborating on the academic session.
Organizers include Sofia University, the State Archives Agency, the G.S. Rakovski National Defence College, the St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo, the St Cyril and St Methodius National Library, and the Institute for Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The commemoration schedule begins at 11:00 am with a ceremony held at the National Defence College.
This will be followed by the official opening of the academic session at 1:00 pm in the Rectorate of Sofia University, where historians will participate in discussions across two dedicated panels. Further activities include a poster exhibition focused on the April Uprising, which opens at 1:45 pm in the second-floor foyer of the Sofia University Rectorate and is authored by Asst. Prof.
Vladimir Terziev. The joint commemoration concludes at 5:00 pm with the opening of the exhibition, “For the Freedom of a Nation,” at the National Library, curated by the National Library and the State Archives Agency.
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