He also was participant in the Ilinden Uprising and one of the members of the Forest Staff of the Krushevo Revolutionary Region.

Some sources mistakenly claim that he was born in Veles, then in Ottoman Empire,[1][4] because his parents were refugees from there.

[7] In the early spring of 1903 he left the military service and went to Macedonia, joining the Pitu Guli detachment operating in the Krusevo region.

At the Smilevo Congress of the Bitola revolutionary district in May 1903, he was elected a member of the Forest Command and military leader of the uprising in Krushevo.

They participated on September 21 in a battle near the village of Biljača, in today's Serbian municipality of Bujanovac.