pleven

pleven is quite a big city of 105.000 inhabitants, located in the middle of north-bulgaria 170 kms from sofia, 50 kms from the danube and 320 kms from the blacksea coast. it is in the middle of a rural area, there is a little river the vit with a sidearm called tuchenitsa know in pleven as the barata streaming north in the danube. historically pleven is know for the siege of plevna in 1877-1878 where the osman empire was defeated by the russian tsar aleksander II. many monuments remember the liberation of pleven: panorama, the old fort, general skobolov, the monument 1877-1944, the statue of aleksander II, the huge regional historical museum and the small museum of aleksander II and the russian mausoleum (ossuarium) and the turkish bath (svetlin rusev house).

clock tower

post office & vivacom



regional palace of justice

town hall

regional department

central square

the russian mausoleum (ossuarium)

the water works

the little central park

church of st. nicolas build in 1834

church of the holy trinity build in 1870

the mall

the theater

the vasil levski bul







the bank buildings

the small museum aleksander II

the huge regional historical museum

the galery ilya beshkov

statue of tsar alexander II

the momument 1877-1944

the statue of general skobolev

the old fortress

panorama

other