Revolutionary Dimo Yankov

Dimo Yankov Vasilev, known by the pseudonyms Druzhelyubov, Kyose Dai and Dimitar Chorbadzhiev, was a Bulgarian teacher and revolutionary, an active member of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation, identified in the source by the abbreviation IMARO, and of the Internal Thracian Revolutionary Organisation.

He was born on 14 February 1875 in Malko Tarnovo in the Ottoman Empire, now in Bulgaria. In 1892 he completed the fourth class of the Dr Petar Beron High School in Edirne, then studied for two years at the Turkish Adie School in the same city.

From 1894 to 1896 he taught in Malko Tarnovo and later worked in trade. From the autumn of 1900 until May 1903 he was treasurer and chairman of IMARO's district revolutionary committee in Malko Tarnovo, after which he went underground.

Yankov was a delegate to the Petrova Niva Congress and took an active part in the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising in the summer of 1903 as a member of Stamat Ikonomov's detachment. In 1904 he was a delegate to the Varna Congress of the Adrianople Revolutionary District.

From 1904 to 1908 he represented IMARO in Burgas. In subsequent years he taught Turkish at the Bulgarian Dr Petar Beron High School in Edirne, serving there from 1909 to 1913.

From 1915 to 1919 he was mayor of Malko Tarnovo. From 1922 to 1934 he then held the posts of auditor and facilities manager at the Burgas commodity exchange. He was also the long-serving chairman of the Union of Thracian Societies in the Burgas region.

From 1938 to 1939 he was a member of the 24th Ordinary National Assembly. Dimo Yankov Vasilev died in Sofia on 22 February 1965. His personal archive is held by the Archives State Agency.