WOMEN IN BULGARIAN POLITICAL LIFE; EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS, ENROLLMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700100398-8
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• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 398
• Publication Date: January 31, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Sociological - Education, schools, students
Political
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Sofia
DATE '
PUBLISHED 7 - 11 Dec 1952
LANGUAGE Bulgarian
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WOMEN IN BU1GARlAN POLITICAL LIFE;
EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS, ERROLLMERT
BUTGARIAN WOMEN IN PUBLIC OFFICES -- Sofia, Rabotnichesko Delo, 7 Dec 52
According to Teola Dragoycheva, Minis+,er of Posts, Telegraphs, rend Tele-
phones, 56,032 women agitators and propagandists participated in the elections
of lj May 1949 and 157,F59 in the elections of 18 December 1949.
At present, women occupy the following high positions: ore is a minister
rTsola Dragoycheva], one is an ambassador ~tela Blagoeva, Ambassador to Mos-
cow], four are assistant ministers, and 38 are deputies to the People's As-
riembly.
During the first eicc?tions for people's soviets in 19119, a total of 37,000
deputies were elerced, including 5,646 wcmen. Five hundred women were appointed
as court assessors and Judges. Half of the citizens participating in 11,000
election commissions, which includEd over 160,000 citizens, were womea.
A total of 16,915 election commissions with 400,000 persona will be active
during the elections of people's soviets on 14 December 1952, at which time,
60,000 men and women will be elected as workers' deputies in okrug, okoiiya,
city, rayon, and village People's Soviets.
Among the female candidates is IQagda Gineva, chief of the women's section
of the Cent: al Committee of the BKP (Bulgarian Communist Party) and member of
the Bureau of the National Council of the Fatherland Froni.
Twelve women are nnw directors of enterprises, 15 are members of the Central
Council of Trade Unions, 543 work in trade union committees, and 25,848 have
other responsible Jnb6 in industry.
About 500,000 women have ,joined field and livestock-raising brigades, 20,000
are zveno (group) leaders, 3,030 are members oY T.KZS (cooperative labor farm)
administrations, 4,142 are leaders and workers in livestock-raising farms, an@
758 are tractor drivers.
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At prraent, there are 631 rural maternity centers is Bulgaria and 1,175
rural dispensaries for xomen and children. All okrug hospitals have children's
xards. During the past years, thre,: sex children's clinics and ten children's
sanatoriums vere opened. A pediatric research instituee xas also opened.
By the end of 1951, there were 278 day nurseries with 882 nurses. Nox there
are 42 Sunday nurseries xith ?,067 children and 1,137 half-day nurseries xith
48,048 children. There xere 3,460 seasonal nurseries in rural areas, with 4,760
nurses and 159,200 children at the end of 1951.
PUBLIC EDUCATION IMPROyES __ Sofia, Rabotnichesko Delo, 10 Dec 52
According to Marin P. Geshkev, Assistant Minister of Public Education, dur-
ing the 1951 - 1952 school year, only 8,000 children vere not in school, xhile
during the 1952 - 1953 school year, only 0.5 percent of the children of school
aBe vere not registered in some school.
During the 192 - 1953 school year, there are X49 secondary schools in Bul-
~ria. OP these, 180 are edinnite pulni sredni obahtoobrazovatelni uchilishta
vintteatterncon~lete secondary general-education schools), modeled after the So-
P arty-six evening gymnasium preparatory schools and 47 evening
gymnasiums are being opened. There are 1,637 kindergartens, xith 68,705 children.
During 1952, there vere 3,572 summer or other seasonal kindergartens, xith
182,837 children.
During the 1951 - 19,52 school year, there xere 279 vocational schools. At
present, there are 1,057 Turkish schools vith 87,235 children. There is a Turk-
ish Gymnasium in Kolarovgrad, a Turkish cooeducational secondary school in Mom-
chilgrad, a Turkish gymnasium for girls in Ruse, and three Turkish teachera?
schools, inrludino toe oue in Sofia. A Turkish department is being opened in
the teachers' institute in Kolarvograd, and three Turkish departments are being
added to Sofia University.
There are also 12 Armenian and :.0 gypsy schools in Bulgaria.
There are 24 teachers' schools and 10 teachers' institutes xn Bulgaria, pt
present, 2,500 teachers are being trained for gymnasium preparatory schools.
^_hete are 84 homes Por 5,851 children without parents.
59,716 WORKERS! DEPUTIES REGISTERED -- Sofia, Otechestven Front, 10 Dec 52
According to Georgi Damyanov, President of the Presidium of the Pecple's
Assembly, 59,716 candidates are registered Por the election of people's soviets
of workers' deputies -- 48,396 men and 11,320 women. Of' the 59,716 candidates,
5,333 are blue-collar workers, 19,303 are white-collar workers, 23,680 are mem-
bers of TKZS, 8,986 are private farmers, 881 are ariiaans, and i,73j are of
miscellaneous professions.
8,514 SCHOOLS TN BULGARIA __ Snfie, Otechestven trout, 11 Der 52
There are 8,514 acheols iti Bulgaria, attended by 1,169,540 students, and
there are 24,605 more teachers there nox than in 1944. The government has ^_-
tablished 1,038 minority schc,nls in Bulgaria. There are 14 higher educational
institutions in Bulgaria, with 36 faceltiea attended by 30,000 students. By
the end of the 1951 - 1952 school yesr, 435,611 cltizena became literate, and
by the end of 1953, illsteracy will be eliminated altcgecher.
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