Revolutionary Stefan Bocharov

Stefan Hristov Bocharov was a Bulgarian physician and officer born on 1 April 1852 in the village of Beykovtsi. He graduated from the Aprilov secondary school in Gabrovo and studied at the Imperial Medical-Surgical Academy in St Petersburg. He interrupted his education to serve as a medical assistant in the Serbian-Turkish War of 1876 and then in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. He worked with medical detachments and hospitals of the Serbian and Russian armies.

After the war he completed his medical education and worked as a military physician and hygiene specialist. From 1897 to 1907 he was chief physician of the Bulgarian army, and in 1910 he was promoted to major general. He served as deputy head of the Military Medical Department and head of the Military Medical Inspectorate. Bocharov was also a member of the governing board of the Bulgarian Red Cross.

Major General Stefan Bocharov died in Sofia on 14 January 1937.