Revolutionary Gyurchin Naumov

Gyurchin Naumov Dimov, known as Plyaka or Plyakot, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and Krushevo voivode of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation.

He was born in 1851 in the village of Slansko, then part of the Ottoman Empire. In 1896 he killed the notorious Mefail Agha and then went underground. In the spring of 1897 he left for Sofia.

In 1900, together with Yordan Piperkata, he joined Mirche Atsev's detachment as a fighter. He actively participated in expanding the revolutionary network in the Prilep and Krushevo Revolutionary Areas and in the struggle against Muslim bandits. In March 1901 he joined Nikola Rusinski's Krushevo detachment and remained in it after it was taken over by Velko Markov.

In the battle in the village of Rakitnitsa on 23 July 1902, the voivode Vele Markov and much of the detachment died, while only Gyurchin Naumov and three other fighters managed to break through the Turkish blockade. On 30 June 1902 the district committee in Bitola appointed him Krushevo voivode.

He participated in defending the Krushevo Republic during the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising. After the uprising he remained in the Krushevo district, continuing to fight Greek and Serbian propaganda.

On 23 September 1904 Gyurchin Naumov was killed in a battle with Turkish regular troops. His son Duko Georgiev moved to Sofia at the age of seven and completed his primary education there. In 1913 he emigrated to Rankin, USA, where he later chaired the Independence branch of the Macedonian Patriotic Organisation and was a delegate to the organisation's fourth congress.