At 12:00 p.m. on November 1 – the Day of the People’s Awakeners, the exhibition “Razgrad Periodical Printing in Images and Untold Stories” will be opened in the house-museum “Ananie Yavashov”.

The author of the exhibition, Prof. Rositsa Angelova PhD – head of the “New and Recent History” department at the Regional History Museum, is adamant that Razgrad deserves this exhibition because of the very colorful fan of periodicals – newspapers and magazines, both in Bulgarian as well as in Turkish, and Razgrad’s indisputable contribution to the development of periodicals in Bulgaria.

From 1889 – when the first magazine appeared in the capital of Ludogorie, to 1944 – when it stopped in “Razgradsko Slovo”, in a small town like Razgrad with an average of 15,000 inhabitants, there were nearly 70 editions. According to Prof. Rositsa Angelova, this is an extremely great achievement, not only in terms of number, but also different in type of publications: political and advertising newspapers, social-informational and spiritual newspapers, newspapers with a professional focus, as well as jubilee lists. Among them – several newspapers and magazines in the Turkish language, related to the socio-political, cultural and sports life of the Turkish population.

And more: “Behind the large number of newspapers and magazines of that time, we must mention the persons who made the periodical possible: the publisher, the editor, the printer, the distributors.

We have tried to present them”, Prof. Angelova slightly raises the curtain of the exhibition. She invites the people of Razgrad to the opening and promises to tell interesting stories that have not been told before about the people of the written word of that time, as well as what interesting advertisements the newspapermen used to make a living.