Revolutionary Rayko Rangelov

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Revolutionary Rayko Rangelov

Rayko Rangelov

Active from: 1903
Active until: 1933

Rayko Rangelov was a Bulgarian revolutionary involved in both the Internal Western Outlands Revolutionary Organisation and the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (IMRO).

He was born in the village of Borovo in the Tsaribrod region, then part of the Principality of Bulgaria and now in Serbia. He initially joined IMRO and subsequently the Internal Western Outlands Revolutionary Organisation. He was assigned to carry out an attack on the Belgrade–Niš railway but was captured by the Serbian authorities. After being tortured, he was hanged in Belgrade Prison on 28 February 1933.