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"'Hristo Kyurchiev'" (born in 1872 in Krushevo, died in 1941 in Sofia) was one of the six members of the The Provisional Government of the The Kruševo Republic and the first and only mayor in Kruševo Republic.

Biography
Hristo Kyurchiev was born in 1872 in the city of Krushevo, then Ottoman Empire. According to the origin, his grandfather Trajcho Strezov was from the village Buchin, Krushevo, but he was expelled from there, so he moved with the whole family to Krushevo. Hristo completed his education at the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki where he learned to speak French language fluently. Before the uprising, he was engaged in shoemaking.

In the Krushev Republic
Immediately after the proclamation of the Kruševo Republic there was an initiative to form the Provisional government. Six citizens of Krushevo entered it, among them Hristo Kyurkchiev. Each of them was given a position according to their experience, so Qurkchiev was appointed mayor, and his position was also to manage the the city militia.

Amnesty and Emigration
After the fall of the republic and the capture of Krushevo by the Ottoman army, together with Dimitar Sekulov, responsible for food and production, allegedly because he protected women in the Turkish administration was sent to Bitola by Bakhtiyar Pasha. However, in 1904 he was saved from a general amnesty and immediately emigrated to Bulgaria where he settled in Sofia.

He dedicates his life in Sofia to his old trade, where he was engaged in shoemaking, and for that reason he opened a shoemaker's shop. In 1941 he suffered a stroke and died in Sofia, Bulgaria in his 60s.