List of Bulgarian generals from 1878 to 1946

This is a list of Bulgarian generals from the period of the Principality (1878–1908) and Kingdom (1908–1946). The year each became a general is given in parentheses.

List

A

• Abadzhiev, Georgi — Major General (1913)
• Avramov, Ivan — Major General (1921)
• Agura, Georgi — Major General (1900)
• Azmanov, Stefan — Major General (1918)
• Atanasov, Rashko — Major General (1935)

B

• Bakardzhiev, Nikola — Infantry General (1934)
• Balabanov, Boncho — Major General (1900)
• Balkanski, Milenko — Major General (1917)
• Batsarov, Ivan — Major General (1917)
• Belov, Stefan — Major General (1917)
• Blaskov, Andrey — Major General (1904)
• Bonchev, Ivan — Major General (1918)
• Bogdanov, Stefan — Lieutenant General (1920)
• Botev, Kiril — Lieutenant General (1912)
• Bocharov, Stefan — Major General (c. 1910)
• Bochev, Nikola — Major General (1900)
• Boshnakov, Georgi — Major General (1918)
• Boyadzhiev, Kliment — Lieutenant General (1915)
• Bradistilov, Stoyu — Lieutenant General (1917)
• Burmov, Hristo — Lieutenant General (1936)
• Barnev, Panayot — Lieutenant General (1918)
• Boydev, Vasili — Lieutenant General (1939)

C

• Charakchiev, Hristo — Major General (1917)

D

• Davidov, Aleksandar — Major General (1925)
• Daskalov, Teodosi — Infantry General (1942)
• Delov, Vasil — Major General (1913)
• Dikov, Vicho — Lieutenant General (1913)
• Dimitriev, Iliya — Major General (1908)
• Dimitriev, Radko — Lieutenant General (1912)
• Dipchev, Ivan — Major General (1934)
• Draganov, Yanko — Lieutenant General (1917)

F

• Fichev, Ivan — Lieutenant General (1914)

G

• Genchev, Nikola — Lieutenant General (1945)
• Genev, Nikola — Major General (1904)
• Georgiev, Konstantin — Major General (1920)
• Georgiev, Todor — Lieutenant General (1934)
• Geshev, Dimitar — Infantry General (1919)

H

• Hadzhipetkov, Nikola — Lieutenant General (1940)
• Hesapchiev, Hristofor — Major General (1910)
• Hristov, Pavel — Infantry General (1917)
• Hristov, Nikola - Lieutenant General (1944)

I

• Ivanov, Georgi — Major General (1909)
• Ivanov, Nikola — Infantry General (1936)
• Ilyev, Stefan — Major General (1900)

K

• Kantardzhiev, Todor — Lieutenant General (1917)
• Ketskarov, Vladimir — Major General (1935)
• Kirkov, Dimitar — Major General (1912)
• Kirkov, Konstantin — Major General (1918)
• Kiselov, Panteley — Infantry General (1920)
• Kisyov, Aleksandar — General of the Cavalry (1931)
• Kovachev, Stiliyan — Infantry General (1936)
• Kolev, Ivan — Lieutenant General (1917)
• Kolev, Krum — Major General (1944)
• Krayovski, Stanislav — Major General (1935)
• Krstev, Asen — Major General (1941)
• Kutinchev, Vasil — Infantry General (1918)

L

• Lazarov, Velizar — Infantry General (1929)
• Lilkov, Hristo — Major General (1944)
• Lolov, Petar — Major General (1917)
• Lukash, Konstantin — Lieutenant General (1940)
• Lukov, Ivan — Lieutenant General (1920)
• Lukov, Hristo K. — Lieutenant General (1938)
• Lukov, Hristo Ts. — Major General (1907)
• Lyubomski, Stefan — Major General (1892)

M

• Marinkov, Sotir — Lieutenant General (1933)
• Marinov, Ivan — Lieutenant General (1944)
• Marinov, Krastyu — Major General (1900)
• Markov, Ivan — Major General (1919)
• Markov, Ivan — Lieutenant General (1940)
• Markov, Petar — Cavalry General (1918)
• Markov, Todor — Major General (1917)
• Marholev, Genko — Major General (1936)
• Marchin, Georgi — Major General (1913)
• Midilev, Petar — Major General (1930)
• Mitov, Todor — Major General (1915)
• Mikhov, Nikola — Lieutenant General (1942)
• Mutkurov, Sava — Major General (1891)
• Nam, My - Supreme Commander (1878)

N

• Nakov, Nikola - Lieutenant General (1944)
• Nazlamov, Atanas — Lieutenant General (1918)
• Naydenov, Kalin — Lieutenant General (1917)
• Nedev, Nikola — Major General (1935)
• Nedyalkov, Hristo — Lieutenant General (1919)
• Nerezov, Stefan — Infantry General (1920)
• Nikiforov, Nikifor — Lieutenant General (1912)
• Nikolaev, Danail — Infantry General (1909)
• Nikolov, Asen N. — Major General (1917)
• Nikolov, Kosta — Major General (1937)

P

• Pakov, Hristo — Major General (1936)
• Papadopov, Asen — Major General (1914)
• Paprikov, Stefan — Lieutenant General (1908)
• Peev, Yordan — Major General (1936)
• Peev, Panayot — Major General (1905)
• Pernikliyski, Dimitar — Major General (1917)
• Petrov, Ivan — Major General (1917)
• Petrov, Racho — Infantry General (1936)
• Petrunov, Hristo — Major General (1900)
• Pisarov, Nikola — Major General (1919)
• Popdimitrov, Aleksander — Major General (1943)
• Popov, Georgi — Artillery General (1941)
• Popov, Ivan T. — Major General (1909)
• Popov, Stefan — Major General (1918)
• Popov, Hristo — Lieutenant General (1919)
• Protogerov, Aleksandar — Lieutenant General (19??)
• Pushkarov, Stoyan — Major General (1918)

R

• Radev, Todor — Major General (1934)
• Ribarov, Nikola — Lieutenant General (1917)
• Rusev, Ivan — Major General (1917)
• Rusev, Rusi — Artillery General (1944)
• Ryaskov, Nikola — Major General (1905)

S

• Savov, Sava — Infantry General (1919)
• Savov, Mihail — Lieutenant General (1908)
• Sapov, Georgi — Major General (1928)
• Sapunarov, Mihail — Major General (1918)
• Sarafov, Ivan — Major General (1905)
• Shkoynov, Ivan — Major General (1919)
• Sirakov, Asen — Major General (1943)
• Sirakov, Radoy — Major General (1906)
• Sirmanov, Ierotey — Major General (1918)
• Slavkov, Raycho — Lieutenant General (1944)
• Slavchev, Stefan — Lieutenant General (19??)
• Solarov, Konstantin — Infantry General (1934)
• Stanchev, Kiril — Lieutenant General (1944)
• Stefanov, Atanas — Lieutenant General (1943)
• Stoykov, Ivan — Major General (1917)
• Stoychev, Vladimir — Lieutenant General (1944)
• Stoychev, Nikola — Lieutenant General (1942)
• Stoyanov, Vladimir — Major General (1925)
• Stoyanov, Konstantin — Major General (1941)

T

• Tabakov, Ivan — Major General (1918)
• Tanev, Aleksandar — Lieutenant General (1918)
• Tanintchev, Vladimir - Artillery Major General (1930)
• Tanovski, Georgi — Major General (1936)
• Tantilov, Petar — Lieutenant General (1918)
• Tasev, Stefan — Major General (1917)
• Tenev, Pravoslav — Infantry General (1918)
• Todorov, Georgi — Infantry General (1917)
• Topaldzhikov, Nikola — Major General (1923)
• Toshev, Stefan — Infantry General (1917)
• Trifonov, Trifon — Major General (1943)
• Tsanev, Stefan — Lieutenant General (1936)
• Tsenov, Panteley — Lieutenant General (1918)
• Tserkovski, Vaklin — Major General (1907)
• Tsonchev, Ivan — Major General (1901)
• Tsaklev, Petko — Major General (1918)

U

• Uzunski, Konstantin - Major General (unknown)
• Urumov, Boyan - Major General (1938)

V

• Vazov, Vladimir — Lieutenant General (1920)
• Vazov, Georgi — Lieutenant General (1913)
• Vasilev, Valko — Major General (1916)
• Vatev, Anastas — Major General (1930)
• Velchev, Damyan — Colonel General (1945)
• Velchev, Valko — Major General (1901)
• Venedikov, Yordan — Major General (1935)
• Vinarov, Varban — Major General (1900)
• Valkov, Ivan — Infantry General (1928)
• Valnarov, Dimitar — Major General (1907)

Y

• Yankov, Simeon — Major General (1910)
• Yanchulev, Kiril — Major General (1943)
• Yovov, Mihail — Major General (1933)

Z

• Zagorski, Stoyan — Lieutenant General (1918)
• Zafirov, Atila — Major General (1917)
• Zaimov, Vladimir - Major General (1935)
• Zhekov, Nikola — Infantry General (1936)
• Zhelyavski, Nikola — Lieutenant General (1918)
• Zhostov, Konstantin — Major General (1915)
• Zlatarev, Krastyu — Lieutenant General (1919)
• Zlatev, Pencho — Lieutenant General (1934)

References

• Boina Slava Forums: List of the Bulgarian Generals Accessed 2 January 2015. (in English)
• Boina Slava Forums: The Bulgarian Generals. Accessed 2 January 2015. (in Bulgarian)