Kostadin Alakushev

Voivode Kostadin Alakushev
A portrait of Kostadin Alakushev.
Native name	Костадин Алакушев
Born	c. 1875 Tarlis, Salonika Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Vathytopos, Greece)
Died	1912 Fotovishta, Tsardom of Bulgaria (now Ognyanovo)
Allegiance	IMRO
Unit	Cheta of Yane Sandanski
Battles / wars	Macedonian Struggle † Ilinden Uprising
Alma mater	Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki
Other work	One of the founders of the Teachers' Association in Nevrokop Delegate at the 5th congress of the Union of Bulgarian Teachers

Kostadin Alakushev (Bulgarian and Macedonian: Костадин Алакушев ; c. 1875–1912) was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO).

Biography

Kostadin Alakushev was born in the village of Tarlis, in the Ottoman Empire, that is now in Greece known as Vathytopos, Kato Nevrokopi municipality, Drama regional unit. He graduated from the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki and afterwards worked as a teacher in different villages in the region of Nevrokop and Ser. He became a member of the IMARO and participated in the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising in the revolutionary band of Stoyan Malchankov. In 1907 he became a member of the regional committee of the IMARO in Nevrokop. In 1909 he was a member of Yane Sandanski's party, whose aim was to protect the Young Turk Revolution. In 1909 he participated in the foundation of a chapter of the People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section) in Nevrokop. In 1908 Alakushev was among the founders of the Teachers' Association in Nevrokop, in 1911 he became a member of its executive committee and in 1912 he was a delegate at the 5th congress of the Union of Bulgarian Teachers in the Ottoman Empire.

In 1912, Alakushev was kidnapped together with Stoyko Pashkulev and Blagoy Meterov and killed in the vicinity of the village of Fotovishta (today known as Ognyanovo).

References

• Енциклопедия „Пирински край“. Том 1, Благоевград, 1995.