Dimitar Zlatarev

Dimitar Vasiliev Zlatarev (Bulgarian: Димитър Василев Златарев; 5 August 1896 in Yambol, Principality of Bulgaria – 1937 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Soviet Union) was a Bulgarian terrorist. He joined the Bulgarian Communist Party at 1919, rising to become a high-ranking member of its armaments section. At 1924 he and Dimitar Hadzhidimitrov suggested a plot to assassinate a police director and detonate a bomb at his funeral, thus killing many people in the police hierarchy. This attack is what later became the St Nedelya Church assault.[http://www.krumblagov.com/fifty/1.php An essay on the attack] [Bulgarian]. Zlatarev fled to the USSR and was sentenced to death in absentia. During the Great Purge he was sent to a labor camp, where he died.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110708104134/http://bulgari-istoria-2010.com/booksBG/G_Kokerov_Tragedia_v_Sv_Nedelja.pdf An essay on the St. Ndelia attack]}}, with a short biography of Zlatarev at page 10 [Bulgarian].

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