Colonel, Bulgarian Army. MA in Military Sciences, G. S. Rakovsky Defense College (1988). Ph.D. in Military Sciences (1998). Senior Research Fellow in Military Sciences (2003). Since 2002 chief of the Operative Archive, General Staff, Bulgarian Armed Forces. Since 2004 Chief of Center for Military History Studies, Rakovsky Defense College. Chairman of General Assembly, National Security & Defense Faculty, Rakovsky Defense College. Author and editor of volumes on military history (among them Personnel Losses of Bulgarian Army During the Wars .1885-1945, Sofia 2003). In the last years works on the history of Bulgarian military counterintelligence services since 1915, and of Bulgarian Armed Forces history in the Cold War years.

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