Plovdiv

Lokomotiv Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium, located in southeastern Plovdiv, Bulgaria. It is currently used for football matches and is the home... ground of PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv. The stadium was officially opened in 1982 and is a part of a sports complex, which includes an indoor sports hall and a tennis court. The stadium initially held a capacity of 24,000 people, but in 2004 when the team became champions of Bulgaria, after the end of the season part of the stands collapsed, and the capacity was reduced to 13,800 people. Reconstruction of the entire stadium started in May 2010 and is planned to be completed by the summer of 2011. By then the ground should comply with UEFA standards and be available to use for European competitions.
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Berkut Stadium is a football stadium, located in the small village of Brestnik, in the Plovdiv Province, Bulgaria. The stadium is currently used for... football matches and it is the new home ground of the second division Bulgarian football club Brestnik 1948. The new venue was completed in December, 2009 and was opened on June 21, 2010. The construction cost for the stadium was around 750,000 euros and it has a capacity for 3,000 spectators. The pitch's dimensions are 105 to 68 meters. The venue also has electric lightning and it's a part of a modern sports complex, which also includes two tennis courts. After a number of several delays of the construction, the stadium was officially opened on June 21, 2010.
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Milcho Leviev [ˈmiɫtʃo ʎɛˈviɛv] is a Bulgarian composer, arranger, jazz performer and pianist. Milcho Leviev... graduated from the State Academy of Music in 1960 majoring in Composition under Professor Pancho Vladigerov and in Piano under Professor Andrei Stoyanov. As a student, he won the second prize at the International Competition in Vienna for his Toccatina for piano. His professional development as a composer began at the Drama Theatre in Plovdiv. He was appointed conductor of the Big Band of the Bulgarian National Radio after Emil Georgiev left office . His vanguard ideas innovated the orchestra; pieces like Studia, Blues in 9 or Anti-waltz became a standard of a successful synthesis between music folklore and jazz, this synthesis being particularly pronounced in his music. From 1963 to 1968 he worked as soloist and conductor of the Sofia and the Plovdiv Philharmonic.
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Tzvetana Maneva is a Bulgarian actress. She was born in Plovdiv and her artistic career started here. The eminent Bulgarian actress made her debut... in cinema in the 1960s and has appeared in more than 50 Bulgarian films. Her parents are Nadejda Maneva and Georgi Manev. Her sister is Maria Kolarova, née Maneva.
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Asen Kisimov was a Bulgarian stage and film actor, singer and radio presenter. He is best known for the famous songs which he sang for the... soundtracks to the childrens' films The Hedgehogs' War and Vasko da Gama ot selo Rupcha . Kisimov appeared in about 30 feature films between 1956 and 2000, most notably Be Happy, Ani! , The Kindest Person I Know , Something Out of Nothing and Monday Morning . He is also known for numerous stage performances as well as his radio program “An hour of the audience” which was broadcast by the Bulgarian National Radio for about 40 years. For his film, stage and audio works for the children, Kisimov was called Bate Asen.
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