Totleben (Bulgarian: Тотлебен [ˈtɔtlɛbɛn]) is a village in Pordim Municipality, in the Pleven region of Bulgaria, situated in the Danube valley, on the left bank of the river Osam.
Totleben is located 25 km (16 mi) northeast of the city of Pleven, next to the E83 highway Sofia-Pleven-Ruse.
The village is named after the famous Baltic German Russian military engineer general Eduard I. Totleben.
Favourable living conditions have attracted the attention of people from ancient times to testify that found the remains of dwellings, vessels, coins, other objects and building materials.
The people lived in dugouts, houses covered with straw yards that were surrounded by deep ditches.
The plague spread rapidly and caused a large portion of the population to leave the village, seeking salvation from the terrible disease.
The plague was so large in scale that at the beginning of the epidemic people burned their dead families in the dugouts, and then only the trees that held the doors were buried with the inhabitants under the rubble of the houses.
In [1940] poets Kalina Malina and Elissaveta Bagryana visited Totleben village and read their poems in the hall of the old Library/Cultural club "Probuda", located at the place of the home for children and adolescents at school "St.St.
In the 1960s and 1970s the Library/Cultural club - Chitalishte "Probuda" has been visited repeatedly with their performances Pleven Theatre, magician Fakira Miti and many others.
In 2010 the Minister of Education, Youth and Science Prof. Sergei Ignatov visited Totleben and Home for children deprived of parental care "Mladen Antonov".
The Boarding-School sat in a wide, cozy building, built in an ecologically clear area with excellent communication with the main town Pleven and with the other centers in the region.
The Primary Logopedic Boarding-School has an excellent base with cabinets for individual language therapy as well as geography, biology, chemistry, physics, foreign languages laboratories, imitative fine arts, cinema and sports hall, a rich library, mechanical and woodtuming workshops.
In the 1980s, around 500 children with speech problems of the whole country and from poor and large families in the county are placed in three boarding and training in two schools in the village.
On 10 December 2012 the renovated Home for children deprived of parental care "Mladen Antonov" in the village Totleben was opened.
М. А. Кунчев, Доклад за историческото, революционно и икономическо развитие на с. Тотлебен, окръг Плевенски (ръкопис), 1963 2.