Do you know that in Gabrovo for the first time opened:
\nThe first secular school – 1835.
\nThe first school library – 1840.
\nThe first application of sonorous methodology for the letters pronunciation – 1868.
\nThe first educational cabinet in physics – 1872.
\nThe first factory for cartridges.
\nThe first tennis – court and ice – rink -1922.
\nThe first factory for delivery of cloths for the Princely Court – 1882., founded by Ivan Kolchev Kalpazanov for the production of textile, homespun and braids. It is the first one, moved by water turbine and coals; the first one with a personal office in the center of the town and with its own flag, sewn in Vienna; the first one that opened a steam power station and delivered a pavilion from Vienna for the first Bulgarian exposure. The first factory which gave pensions to its workers by its own initiative and opened a factory bathroom; one of the first factories whose owners had made insurances to their workers in the beginning of C20, when the insurance stock is being actively developed.
\nThe first performance of Bulgarian anthem in the Aprilov secondary school.
\nThe first one among all the 11 factories for soaps till 1936.
\nThe first factory for coke and coal derivatives.
\nThe first factory for shoe-trees \u2013 1918.
\nThe first \u201cRed Cross\u201d society \u2013 founded in November 1st, 1883.
\nThe first contemporary concert hall \u2013 opened in October 21st, 1962.
\nThe first meteorological station \u2013 January 1st, 1887.<\/p>\n
Do you know that :
\nGabrovo was declared a creditor in 1942.
\nIn the regional historic museum of Gabrovo is kept the first banknote with a serial number No. 000001 since 1881 and one of the three golden coins of Philip Makedonsky since III C B.C., as well as the most preserved chain armor since C 9 in Bulgaria. The most industrialized town in Bulgaria for the period 1905-1978 had been Gabrovo and therefore it was called ,,Bulgarian Manchester\u201d.
\nDo you know that inhabitants of Gabrovo are:
\nThe first secretary of state for war \u2013 general-mayor Konstantin Popkonstantinov.
\nThe founder of Bulgarian artillery \u2013 general-mayor Nikola Ryazkov.
\nThe first chairman of military and science institute \u2013 general-lieutenant Hristo Bourmov.
\nThe first Bulgarian woman opera singer who had sung in Milan ,,La Scala\u201d- Elena Doskova \u2013 Ricardi.
\nOne of the founders of Bulgarian opera \u2013 Bogdana Guizeleva Vulpe.
\nThe first and greatest Bulgarian bibliographer \u2013 acad. Nicola Mihov.
\nThe first Bulgarian engineer, shipbuilder and founder of Varna shipyard \u2013 Ivan Rodev.
\nThe first Bulgarian psychiatrist and neurologist \u2013 doctor Georgi Payakov.
\nThe first secretary of constituent assembly \u2013 Ivan Giuzelev.
\nThe first textile engineer Ivan Metev Hristov.
\nThe first machine engineer \u2013 Ivan Manafov.
\nThe first midwife \u2013 Maria Patruncheva.
\nThe first graduated architect, who had projected the bigger part of Bulgarian railway stations \u2013 Hristo Vassilev Enev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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