[1] Prof. Assen Zlatarov participated in the establishment of the Committee for the Protection of the Jews, together with the widow of the statesman Petko Karavelov - the public actress Ekaterina Karavelova, the writer Anton Strashimirov, Prof. Petko Staynov and others.

The former Mir and Word newspapers published articles against the established committee, saying that it was not the job of Bulgaria, even more so for individual citizens, to be confused with the affairs of great Germany.

On July 3, 1933, a meeting was thwarted, where lecturers were Ekaterina Karavelova and Anton Strashimirov.

The University was founded on October 6, 1963 by Decree #162 of the Bulgarian Council of Ministers as a Higher Chemico-technological institute and formally named "Prof. D-r. Assen Zlatarov".

2007 of the National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency and is a member of the European University Association (EUA).