Graduated from the Georgi Benkovski Air Force Academy, Dolna Mitropolia- 1966; finished the military engineering air academy; record holder of night parachute jump - 13 km; one of six Bulgarian candidates for the first Soyuz mission, but not selected; Captain; son of the Bulgarian Secretary of Defense at this time; died in a parachute jump or of acrobatic exercises with the jet L -29.