Revolutionary Kosta Aprilov

Kosta Penchev Aprilov was a Bulgarian revolutionary and volunteer, born in 1852 in Gabrovo. He was the son of Pencho Nikolov Aprilov, a first cousin of Vasil Aprilov. During preparations for the April Uprising, he served in Tsanko Dyustabanov's detachment. After the uprising was crushed, Kosta managed to emigrate two months later.

He joined the Bulgarian Volunteer Corps and enrolled in its mounted sotnia, which consisted of 130 cavalrymen with their own horses. He participated in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877 – 1878, including the epic battles at Shipka. After the Liberation, Kosta Penchev Aprilov became a haberdashery merchant in Gabrovo and was elected a municipal councillor in 1897. Between 1910 and 1918 he moved to Sofia, and in 1918 he settled in Pleven, where he became chairman of the town's Society of Liberation Fighters and Volunteers. He died on 1 May 1933 in Pleven.

His son Pencho Aprilov was a chemist at the Military Arsenal in Sofia and died during the First World War on Kaymakchalan Peak.