Mihail Solunov

Mihail Petrov Solunov (Macedonian and Bulgarian: Михаил Петров Солунов; 1877-1956) was a Macedonian-Bulgarian journalist and monk.

Born in Prilep, in the then-Ottoman Empire, he completed the Bulgarian boys' school in Bitola and afterwards studied at the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki.

There he also co-founded the Balkanski Glasnik newspaper,[1] which promoted Macedonian nationalism and separatism with regard to church, language, and autonomy.

[5] During World War II, Solunov subsequently served as mayor of Dolneni, Vitolište, Samokov and Žbevac in the Bulgarian occupation zone of Yugoslavia.

[6] After the war, he became a monk under the name Mina and died at Rila Monastery in 1956.

Teachers and pupils from Bulgarian boys' school in Bitola . Solunov is the second person on the third row from right to left.