Revolutionary Stoyan Buynov

Stoyan Hristov Buynov was a Bulgarian revolutionary who actively participated in the Bulgarians' national liberation movement during the 19th century.

He was born around 1839 in Kalofer on the Balkan Peninsula. After completing school, he began work as a clerk in a trading office in Constantinople and later established his own office in Balkapan Han. In 1861, he and several friends founded the Secret Society of Faithful Friends in Constantinople, a revolutionary association inspired by the Italian Carbonari. Buynov actively engaged in the struggle against Ottoman rule, supporting the recruitment of volunteers for the First Bulgarian Legion and preparations for an uprising under Georgi Rakovski in 1862.

In 1863, Buynov was captured by the Ottoman authorities in his hometown and sentenced to three years in prison. Following his release in 1866, he changed his revolutionary activities and worked in coarse woollen cloth production in Anatolia, later trading in Constantinople. After Bulgaria's Liberation, he moved to Silistra and served as district chief, later holding an administrative position in Varna.

Stoyan Buynov died in 1908 in Indzhe Kyoy village, now Topoli, in the Varna region.