Yanka Kanevcheva

Justiniana (Yanka) Gerdjikova Kanevcheva [1](11 June 1878 – 3 March 1920) was a Bulgarian revolutionary, a member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.

Kanevcheva joined the IMORO and participated in the female revolutionary group led by teacher Slavka Pushkarova from Struga, together with Lyuba Kuppeva from Veles, Macedonia and Amalia Pridjianova, later the wife of Clement Shapkarev.

In 1900, she planned with Delchev, Gyorche Petrov and Boris Sarafov the kidnapping of Nikola Geshov, the son of Ivan Evstratiev Geshov, but this was abandoned as the Geshov family left for Paris.

[5] After the death of Delchev, Kanevcheva married Mihail Gerdzhikov.

He died in Plovdiv,[8] or Sofia, Bulgaria, or according to other data in Switzerland.