Voivode Hristo Babyanski

Hristo Dumchev Babyanski was a Bulgarian hajduk and revolutionary, and a voivode of IMARO.

He was born in Babyani village in the Yenidje Vardar region of the Ottoman Empire. He and his brother Dimitar Babyanski operated in an outlaw band on Mount Paiko. Later, he joined IMARO and served under Pavel Gramatikov and Apostol Petkov. He actively participated in the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising as a voivode in the Thessaloniki revolutionary region.

In 1904, he murdered Konstantin Doyamov, a cousin of the IMARO renegades Lazar, Trayan, Gono and Dimitar Doyamov. That year, Babyanski was wounded in a major battle while serving as deputy voivode of Apostol Petkov's detachment. On 8 February 1905, Hristo died fighting Turkish soldiers in the Krushka locality on Mount Paiko near Kriva. His severed head was carried around the surrounding villages as a symbol of persistence and struggle against Ottoman violence.