Krum Kyulyavkov

[2] Kyulyavkov was close to other Bulgarian left-wing writers such as Hristo Smirnenski and wrote for party newspapers and magazines.

[3][1] During the September Uprising in 1923, he created an armed student illegal group in the high school.

Kyulyavkov traveled to Austria in 1926 by the order of the BCP and shortly after to the Soviet Union where mostly lived in Kharkiv.

[4] During the purges he was arrested in 1938 and lived under house arrest, until he was rehabilitated in 1940 with the help of Georgi Dimitrov in 1940 and managed to return to Bulgaria, where he became active in the underground communist resistance and was tasked with becoming the head of the BCP's writers' committee.

[2] After the 1944 September coup, Kyulyavkov was involved in the suppression of literary and artistic opponents of the Communist Party in Bulgaria.