Revolutionary Kocho Mustruka

Kocho Georgiev Mustrukov, better known as Mustruka, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and voivode of the Macedonian Committee and the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO). Born in 1873 in the village of Trastenitsa, then part of the Ottoman Empire, Mustruka became known as a long-serving hajduk voivode.

He participated in the Macedonian Committee's armed detachment campaign in 1895, but his lack of discipline brought him into conflict with the detachment's voivode, Boris Sarafov. After this campaign, Mustruka again became a hajduk. In 1899 he represented the Rila Society at the Sixth Macedonian Congress. He was recruited into IMARO and operated with Gotse Delchev, but later broke away from his detachment and, acting on his own initiative, captured a monk from the Monastery of Saint John near Serres and released him for a ransom. For his unauthorised actions, he was punished with death by Atanas Teshovski's Nevrokop regional detachment.