Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum

Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum
Мавзолей на Георги Димитров
	The Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum in 1968
	42°41′45″N 23°19′34″E / 42.69583°N 23.32611°E
Location	Sofia, Bulgaria
Designer	Georgi Ovcharov; Racho Ribarov; Ivan Danchov;
Type	Memorial
Material	Stone
Beginning date	2 July 1949
Completion date	10 July 1949
Dedicated to	Georgi Dimitrov
Dismantled date	21–27 August 1999
Architectural style	Socialist realism

The Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum (Bulgarian: мавзолей на Георги Димитров) was a ceremonial tomb on Prince Alexander of Battenberg Square in Sofia, Bulgaria. It was built in 1949 to house the embalmed body of Georgi Dimitrov, the first leader of Communist Bulgaria.^[1] After his death in 1950, the second communist leader of Bulgaria, Vasil Kolarov, was buried in the second niche of the east wall of the mausoleum. In 1999, following a heated public debate, it was destroyed by Ivan Kostov's UDF government.

^ "Bulgarians & Bulgaria" (in Bulgarian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. Archived from the original on 2006-09-07. Retrieved 2006-06-12.

[1] "Bulgarians & Bulgaria" (in Bulgarian). Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. Archived from the original on 2006-09-07. Retrieved 2006-06-12.

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