On 10.04.20 the students members of the school council and participants in the project “A region of youth participation” presented the personality of Georgi Benkovski with a poster and a presentation.The initiative is part from the project  “Notable people and events” and is the first from a series coming out  in April- the month of the heroes from the April epopee.

Georgi Benkovski ( Gavril Hlutev by birth) was born on September 21^st 1843.

Hardships he goes through in his childhood  force him to leave  after finishing 3^rd grade at the Elementary school in Koprivshtitsa. After that his mother sends him to be apprenticed to a tailor. Later he becomes an apprentice of a weaver of aba (a coarse woolen cloth) but  leaves his master and becomes a trader himself .

He is a Bulgarian revolutionary, a main figure in the organization as well as  the head of the April Uprising during 1876 at Fourth Plovdiv revolutionary district.

In Bucharest, he meets Stoian Zaimov who enkindles his  interest in  revolution causes . Georgi Benkovski forms "Hvarkovatata cheta" - a mounted unit active during the April Uprising, numbering about 200 rebels. On 25th May 1876 he was betrayed and killed - shot and beheaded.