Todor Zhivkov was born in 1911 in the village of Pravets Sofia District into a peasant family. He worked in a printing house, went to school schedules. In 1928 he joined the Bulgarian Union of Youth. Arrested and interrogated the tsarist secret police chief Nicola Geshev, rumored to have been named zaverbovan.1 th Chairman of the State Council of Bulgaria July 7, 1971 - November 17, 1989