Revolutionary Naum Tyufekchiev

Naum A. Tyufekchiev, born on 29 June 1864 in Resen in the Ottoman Empire, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and terrorist, known as an organiser of Stefan Stambolov's assassination and an active figure in the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee.

Tyufekchiev studied pyrotechnics in Belgium and established an enterprise producing explosives and weapons in Sofia. In 1891 he organised an assassination attempt against Stefan Stambolov, but Minister Hristo Belchev was killed by mistake, and his brother Dimitar Tyufekchiev was arrested and killed. After this incident, Naum Tyufekchiev fled to Odesa, where, with the assistance of the Russian authorities, he organised the assassination of the diplomat Georgi Valkovich in Constantinople in 1892.

Tyufekchiev returned to Bulgaria, participated in the Young Macedonian Literary Society's activities and founded the Fraternal Union in 1894. In 1895 he successfully organised Stefan Stambolov's assassination, for which he was arrested but later released.

He maintained contacts with the Russian authorities, traded in arms and was connected with various revolutionary groups. In 1915, Tyufekchiev was included in a plan to organise an attack in Bulgaria that ultimately led to the City Casino bombing in January 1915, in which several prominent figures died.

On 25 February 1916, Tyufekchiev was killed on Rakovski Street in Sofia by the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation's executioner, Tushe Skachkov, who fired six bullets into his chest. This act of violence was carried out on the orders of Todor Alexandrov, IMARO's leader.