On 26/09/2013 at 19:00, the restaurant in the "old house" was held TRADITIONAL MEETING OF OLD GORNA DJOUMAYA FAMILY AND REFUGEE POPULATION OF THE BULGARIANS FROM MACEDONIA

Featuring regional history museum - Blagoevgrad performers from DUFA "Pirin wrist" at ODKKHJ – Blagoevgrad, Guitar-mandolin orchestra "Sounds chairman" in community center  "N. Y.Vaptsarov - 1866 "- Blagoevgrad, Dimitar Chalykov and Rosa Angelova and primacy of folk songs from the Aegean Macedonia - Lyubka Rondova. The meeting was attended by the mayor of Blagoevgrad - Atanas Kambitov, Christina Shopov - Director of "Humanitarian actions" and Elena Arnaudova - Head of "Culture”. 120 descendants of old dzhumayski families gathered at the annual meeting, one of the attendees were family clans Kehayovi from Kukush of which is the boss of the orphanage in Blagoevgrad- Evgenia Yordanova, varoshlii, including Maria Kavdanska  and her mother, Rosa Angelova and her son Plamen Tashev, Dimityr Chalykov ,Kosyo Stoilov, whose brother arch. Dimityr Stoilov is the author of the project of restoration of the quarter "Varosha". Present also a descendant of two large family - GOLEMINOVI and IZMERLIEVI of which is the poet Smirnenski is maternal Ralitza Chuchukova, former Secretary of the District Police Directorate. With relatives settlers zarovalii was the former boss of the museum Camellia Gruncharova. The traditional meeting also attended porolii including Velichka Kaynakchieva, former boss of the municipal department "Education" and members of the family of Manassev Gevgeli.

In its 147 year history, Community Center "N.Y.Vaptsarov - 1866" has managed to preserve the traditions and culture of our city. Great contribution to this noble cause have all these Gorna Djoumaya families and their heirs. The Community center continues a series of meetings for many years, providing them with due respect and recognition, as they are the living history of Upper Djumaya - today Blagoevgrad. The meeting was preceded by the opening of the exhibition at 18.00, which marked 105 years since the birth of Marin Goleminov fotodokumentalna with the opening of an exhibition in Central library literature and laying flowers at the memorial of the maestro / house behind the library /. Marin Goleminov character is a composer of the second Bulgarian generation, which is also an offshoot of the old Gorna Djoumaya race. The exhibition presented photographs and documents from the personal archive of the family surname Goleminova material from the State Archives - Blagoevgrad, as well as from the library fund. It is curious that it was exposed to the original score for the play "Chairman sounds" written by the maestro in 1978 specifically for guitar mandolin orchestra of the same name at the community center.

The meeting was attended by family GOLEMINOV (his nieces) who shared their personal experiences with his uncle, and expressed gratitude to the organizers of the initiative .

Ylian Yuruchki

Secretary of  community center "N.Y.Vaptsarov - 1866"