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Buzludzha Monument  
Bulgaria

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First reportDecember 7 2019
by TLB urban exploring
Latest reportNovember 12 2021
by urbexJM



Buzludzha Monument
by TLB urban exploring on December 7 2019 10:07 hr CE(S)T   Shortlink to this report: [ https://urbx.be/dbvk ]

Finding out the location
  very easy
Access
  hard
Safety
  very unsafe
Risk of being seen
  low
General condition of the place
  good
Traces of vandalism
  many
Good place for taking pictures?
  very good
Did you see other people?
  none or very few


Visit date    December 30 2018 at 9 hr
Visit duration    1 hour

Sonwhere in the bulagrian mountains the buzludzha Monument was buildet for the communiste part of bulgaria. The big hall with the communiste symbol was so impressive at snow.

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Buzludzha - 2015 und 1983
by urbexJM on November 12 2021 20:03 hr CE(S)T    Shortlink to this report: [ https://urbx.be/bgjy ]

Finding out the location
  very easy
Access
  easy
Safety
  unsafe
Risk of being seen
  low
General condition of the place
  bad
Traces of vandalism
  many
Good place for taking pictures?
  very good
Did you see other people?
  few


Visit date   October 16 2015 at 8 hr
Visit duration   2 hours

Wir hatten noch Glück, es war nicht abgesperrt, es gab eine Öffnung in der Wand. Wir konnten auch bis auf den Turm über steile Stahltreppen steigen. Leider keine Sicht von oben, wegen starkem Nebel.
Ich war schon einmal 1983 im Monument, damals 2 Jahre nach der Eröffnung, durfte man als Tourist ins Innere des Gebäudes. Die Kamera musste unbedingt draußen bleiben.
Ich hoffe, dass Monument kann vielleicht erhalten werden.

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UFO sighting
by suburbX on March 4 2021 13:02 hr CE(S)T    Shortlink to this report: [ https://urbx.be/bxbu ]

Finding out the location
  very easy
Access
  very hard
Safety
  unsafe
Risk of being seen
  high
General condition of the place
  very bad
Traces of vandalism
  very many
Good place for taking pictures?
  very good
Did you see other people?
  none or very few


Visit date   October 29 2019 at 12 hr
Visit duration   1 hour

This beautiful pearl you can't miss when visiting Bulgaria.

The Buzludzha monument is one of the most iconic and significant buildings of post-war modernism in Bulgaria and in Europe. It was built in 1981 and abandoned in the 90's as it represented the previous communist regime.


Entering is not possible anymore unless you have some serious climbing skills. The entrance is closed down with sturdy steel fences. From there you can take some pictures of the outer ring, but you don't get a direct view of the inner room. Nevertheless this is really worth a visit. The building is very impressive with a beautiful decay. Even the overview on top of the mountain is stunning. In 2019 185.000 dollar
granted for a technical study for restauration and in 2020 the study gave possitive results.

A shame for urbexers, but maybe not a bad thing to restore this pearl to it's original glory.

About:
In 1961, to mark 70 years since Dimitâr Blagoev’s group met at Buzludzha Peak to found the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party, three monuments were unveiled on the mountain. The original plan had been to create a fourth, as well—an illuminated red star on the mountaintop.

The architect Georgi Stoilov submitted a proposal for that fourth monument, featuring a ring perched on six columns and a tower at its centre bearing the star.

The project wasn’t used in 1961 however, and it was a decade later when Stoilov received a phone call asking him to revise his plans. Given the extreme winter conditions at the peak (with strong winds and temperatures often as low as -25°C / -13°F), the new specification was for a memorial house featuring heated interior spaces for hosting visitors and special events.

Stoilov revised his designs to feature a saucer-shaped body, with the star mounted in a conjoined tower. Over subsequent revisions Stoilov decided to further separate these elements, positioning the tower outside the saucer in order to give it better stability against wind and the risk of earthquakes.

The look of Georgi Stoilov’s Buzludzha monument was influenced by the Brutalist style then popular in Western Europe, and in particular the architect notes personal influences including Mies van der Rohe, Gropius, and Le Corbusier.

Stoilov’s idea was to create a monument that could become timeless, by incorporating both ancient and futuristic motifs into his design. He lists both the Roman Pantheon and the sci-fi films of the 1950s amongst his inspirations for Buzludzha. The circular form appealed to him also as it seemed to symbolize infinity, and thus echoed the popular communist theme of building an eternal future; eternal glory.



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Urbex World Wonder
by StarkUrbex_ on October 15 2020 13:37 hr CE(S)T    Shortlink to this report: [ https://urbx.be/safj ]

Finding out the location
  very easy
Access
  hard
Safety
  unsafe
Risk of being seen
  very high
General condition of the place
  very bad
Traces of vandalism
  many
Good place for taking pictures?
  very good
Did you see other people?
  few


Visit date   June 21 2019 at 15 hr
Visit duration   1 hour

It has been a long-cherished dream to visit this world wonder of urbex and I was so happy when I finally was able to go here. Although I wasn’t able to get inside, just to get a sneak peek through the very well locked door it was an adventure to visit the mountains and see this magnificent building in real life.

The peak where the monument is located is 1 441 meters high according to Wikipedia. Buzludzha is a name that comes from the Turkish word for “icy”. It’s the name of a mountain peak that is important in Bulgarian history. This is because in the year 1868 there was a battle here between Bulgarian rebels and forces from the Ottoman Empire. 30 rebels fought against 700 Ottoman troops, only four rebels survived. The event has then served as an inspiration for the Liberation of Bulgaria.

The revolutionary Bulgarian poet Hristo Botev wrote the following about the battle:

He who falls while fighting to be free
can never die: for him the sky
and earth, the trees and beasts shall keen,
to him the minstrel's song shall rise …

In 1891 the location was chosen to be the place for the first congress of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (later the Bulgarian Communist Party).

Buzludzha was renamed to Hadzhi Dimitar/Saint Nikola 1942 but is popularly known as Buzludzha still.

In 1944 the peak was witness to another battle between the Communist partisans and Bulgarian fascist forces.

The monument was built between 1971 and 1981, at the cost of over 14 million Bulgarian Leva. The money was raised as donations by the people. When I was there, I also heard that people from the army was forced to work at the building sight and that many died. On August 23, 1981 the monument was opened for the public.

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