Revolutionary Kote Golchev

Kote Golchev was a Bulgarian revolutionary and a member of IMARO. 

He was born in 1862 in the town of Berovo, which was then in the Ottoman Empire and is now part of North Macedonia. During the Serbo-Bulgarian War, he joined Stoyan Bogdantsaliyata's volunteer detachment.

Kote Golchev subsequently joined the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO) and became voivode of an independent detachment in the Maleshevo region. In mid-November 1897, his detachment received support from the Vinitsa committee and attacked the home of the wealthy Turk Kasim Bey, taking around 800 Turkish liras and killing the bey himself. This attack is known as the Vinitsa Affair.

At the outbreak of the Balkan War in 1912, Kote Golchev volunteered for the Macedonian-Adrianople Volunteer Corps and fought in the Second Company of the Kyustendil Battalion and the First Company of the 7th Kumanovo Battalion.

During the liberation of Vardar Macedonia in the Second World War, Kote Golchev's son Dimitar served as mayor of Berovo from 8 August 1941 to 22 June 1943 and  then as mayor of Radovish from 22 July 1943 to 19 November 1943.