Sotir Atanasov

Sotir Atanasov Yanakiev was a Bulgarian Army officer, revolutionary and voivode of the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee.

[1] Atanasov was born on March 30, 1876, in the village of Klisura, then in the Ottoman Macedonia, today in Bulgaria.

He became a vojvode of a detachment of the Supreme Committee, active in the areas of Kochani, Kratovo and Shtip from 1902 to 1903.

Afterwards he returned to service in the Shumen garrison, but on the recommendation of Boris Sarafov in 1904, he retired to Ottoman Macedonia and went to Nevrokop area, at the head of a new detachment.

Colonel Sotir Atanasov died on September 7, 1940, in the village of Drazhintsi, Belogradchik region.