Strašo Pindžur

Strahil Pindžurov (15 March, 1915 – 4 January 1943), better known by his Partisan name Strašo Pindžur (Страшо Пинџур) was a Yugoslav Communist and Macedonian Partisan, active during World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia, who was later proclaimed a national hero of SFR Yugoslavia.

[7] Pindžur's mother re-married and Strašo was sent to his father's native village of Vataša, where he was raised by his grandmother.

As a war orphan later, he was a state pupil in Kragujevac, where in secondary school he came in contact with the Yugoslav communist movement.

Strašo Pindžur studied at the University of Belgrade's Law School, and was a secretary of the illegal student association "Vardar".

He was a close collaborator, and a friend of the Yugoslav communist Ivo Lola Ribar and participated in a number of demonstrations of the party.