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Petar Atanasov Mandjoukov (born June 2, 1942) is a Bulgarian entrepreneur and public figure, honorary citizen of Plovdiv and Sopot, Plovdiv Province, and holder of the highest state award in the Republic of Bulgaria - Order "Stara Planina" I degree, awarded by Decree № 228 / 13.06.2002 of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria - Georgi Parvanov. A mechanical engineer with a degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology, he worked as a technologist at the Vazov Machine-Building Plants (Sopot). In 1999, he founded the company PM Group AD, later renamed Mandjoukov AD. In the years of transition in Bulgaria, Peter Mandjukov quickly established himself as one of Europe's leading retailers of spare parts for machines manufactured in the countries of the former Soviet Union and Russia.

In the second half of his life, in order to implement charitable initiatives, Petar Mandjoukov founded the Petar Mandjoukov Foundation (July 26, 2012) and the Mandjukovi Family Foundation (January 12, 2019) that work in private and public advantage. He is the founder of the Association of Family Business in Bulgaria. The family coat of arms of Mandjoukov family with the motto "Creation, dignity, nobility" reflects Petar Mandjoukov's philosophy of life, related to the family preservation and highly moral practices applied in all endeavors.

Biography
Born on June 2 1942 in Plovdiv, with parents Vera Petrova Aliyanska and Atanas Kosev Mandjukov. His father works in a foundry workshop "Balkan", going all the professional way - from an apprentice, through a journeyman, to a master foundryman. In 1943, Petar Mandjoukov's father was mobilized in the occupying Bulgarian troops in Macedonia. In 1947 his sister Lyuba Mandjoukova died of tuberculosis. Two years later (in 1949) his brother Lubomir was born, whose musical talent made him part of the orchestra of the Naval School in Varna. Due to the father's commitments, the family moved constantly from Gorna Oryahovitsa to Plovdiv and back. Then he settled in the town of Sopot. There Peter completed primary and secondary education with excellent results. He participated in high school brigades and passed the obligatory barracks at that time. He studied in the Bulgarian Navy, and then graduated as an engineer in "Mechanical Engineering Technology" from the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Institute in Sofia. In 1979 he graduated in Foreign Trade from the Karl Marx Higher Institute of Economics in Sofia.

Business
Petar Mandjoukov is one of the youngest chief technologists of VMZ "Sopot". Over the years he has held very high management positions in the field of mechanical engineering. In 1974 he was a research associate II degree of TSNIITMASH - Sofia, and until 1977 he held the same position in DSO "Metalchim" - Sopot. From 1977 to 1985 he was a chief specialist in the WTO "Kintex". In 1985 he returned from Algeria to Bulgaria and became Deputy General Director for Production Affairs of DSO ZMM and First Deputy General Director of the Bulgarian-Soviet Union "Ivanovo" - ZMM, whose general director was Vladimir Kabaidze, recognized at the time as one of the greatest economic leaders in the entire Soviet Union. During the time of socialist Bulgaria, Petar Mandjoukov held a number of positions in foreign trade companies. His professional career took him as an engineer and trader in a number of countries in Africa, Asia and Europe.

Fundamental conflict
At the end of the 1980s, a serious conflict of principle with the leaderships of the Bulgarian and Soviet machine-building took him out of production forever. Petar Mandjoukov opposes the statement that the shortcomings in the production results are due to the work of the Bulgarian enterprises and points out that the production connection is unfavorable for the Bulgarian side. In May 1989, he delivered a speech to the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party at the National Palace of Culture, claiming that the prices imposed did not correspond to production costs, and that the companies participating in the unification between Haskovo, Mihaylovgrad and Sofia were losers. The transcript of the speech was sent to the communist leader Todor Zhivkov, and days later Petar Mandjoukov was removed from office.

After the democratic changes
The democratic changes of 1989/90 found him as a representative of the ZMM in Macedonia. During the first years of democracy, Peter Mandjoukov used his specialized knowledge and contacts in the field of mechanical engineering and quickly established himself as one of Europe's leading retailers of spare parts for machines manufactured in the former Soviet Union and Russia. His impeccable reputation as a trader and machine-building specialist opened many doors and paths around the world, which were difficult for the sales representatives of specialized production employed at that time.

In 1999 Petar Mandjukov founded PM Group AD as a legal successor of companies established in the period after 1990. In October 2007 PM Group AD was renamed Mandjoukov AD. The new name of the company aims to clearly emphasize the family principle of organization. The company is active in the field of media, machine building, trade, construction, winemaking and alternative energy sources.

Petar Mandjukov is a member of the Management Board of the Union of Daily Publishers in Bulgaria, publisher of the Duma newspaper and owner of Balkan Bulgarian Television.

Founder and president of the Golf Club - "Bulgarian Seniors Golf Association". Member of the Management Board of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Bulgaria and Chairman of the Advisory Board to the Bulgarian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

In 2014 Petar Mandjoukov bought 80% of the capital in the national club "CSKA (Sofia)" and became a member of the supervisory board, and his son Ivaylo Mandjoukov is a member of the board. Petar Mandjukov is the individual with the largest number of shares in the club of the "reds". After a series of scandals at the club, in April 2015 Petar Mandjoukov terminated his investments and left CSKA, transferring his shares to Grisha Ganchev and Ilian Indjov. .

Petar Mandjoukov is a major shareholder in the company Prista Recycling AD, and his son Ivaylo Mandjoukov is the Executive Director. The company participates not only as an investor, but also as a co-contractor, carrying out the entire engineering activity of the project - Waste Oil Processing Plant in Angren, Uzbekistan. The construction manager of the plant in Uzbekistan is Ivaylo Mandjukov. The project is the work of the joint venture "Uz - Prista Recycling", established by a decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It includes the Bulgarian company Prista Recycling with 51% and Uznefteproduct, a subsidiary of Uzbekneftegaz, with 49%. High-tech technique was used for the processing of waste oils to obtain fresh base oils, suitable for use in traditional oil production.

On May 18, 2016, the Prime Minister of Bulgaria Boyko Borisov and the President of Uzbekistan - Shavkat Mirziyoev, personally opened the plant. The commissioning of the new high-tech waste oil processing plant reduces pollution with hazardous waste from the environment, helps reduce the illegal disposal of waste oils and provides fresh raw material for the production of new oils.

In Ukraine, the city of Mikolayv, the Prista Recycling Group is investing in a small refinery located on an area of 1.69 hectares. Euro Media BG EOOD (part of Mandjoukov Holding OOD) is a shareholder and investor in Ad Venture Radio BV (Dutch company), in partnership with Karl Habsburg-Lorraine and Hristo Grozev. The company owns the capital of Radio Kraina FM, broadcasting in 26 cities in Ukraine and online. Since 2021, the company "Euro Media BG" Ltd. is also the publisher of the "L'Europeo" magazine.

In 2018, PAM Solar OOD was renamed to Mandjoukov OOD, with managers Ivaneta Mandjoukova and Petar Mandjoukov. The new company is a universal legal successor of Mandjoukov AD and becomes a parent company. As subsidiaries in the holding structure of "Mandjukov" Ltd. are separated the individual business activities developed by the Mandjoukov family. The control was acquired and exercised through the direct participation of the parent company "Mandjukov" Ltd. in the activities of the subsidiaries. Its members are: PM Press OOD (publisher of the weekly TV Saga), Mashinoexport Bulgaria EAD, ZMM AD, ZMM Solar EOOD, Euro Media EOOD. Petar Mandjoukov is the Executive Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors.

In October 2019, by decision of the Council of Ministers № 651 / 04.11.2019, an honorary consulate of the Republic of Uzbekistan in the Republic of Bulgaria was opened, headed by an honorary (freelance) consul, as appointed by Petar Mandjukov. The opening of an honorary consulate of Uzbekistan in Sofia is aimed at contributing to the deepening and expansion of bilateral cooperation in the long-term political and economic aspect.

The Mandjoukov family operates in the field of real estate - purchase and sale, rental of offices, apartments. The company owns office buildings Business Center Premium I and II (each with 12 floors, located on the central Sofia boulevard); prestigious, administrative building in Boyana district; luxury apartments for residential and office needs in top places in Sofia; apartments in Sozopol and many parking spaces.

Another activity of Mandjoukov Holding Ltd., through ZMM "Solar", is related to the production of electricity from renewable sources, through the three built solar power plants - two of which are in the village of Sbor, Pazardzhik and one - in Sofia. The two ground power plants have an installed capacity of 4,979 kWp each, and the roof power plant has 949 kWp. The services of international specialized companies were used for the construction of the power plants.

Petar Mandjoukov's Agro Legacy EOOD company owns about 20,000 decares, which it leases for processing.

Views
Peter Mandjukov's views are a mixture of capitalist entrepreneurship and strong social sensitivity.

Social inequality
Mandjoukov considers inequality in the modern world to be exacerbated to unacceptable limits, where the rich and the poor inhabit "almost different planets." Due to wealthy people's desire to consume more and more, and the concentration of public resources in a group of wealthy people, this social gap will lead to new social revolutions in the coming decades. Peter Mandjoukov foresees the prevention of this sharp social conflict in the establishment of new social relations.

The future
Peter Mandjoukov pays special attention to social inequality and the role of the rich in the redistribution of wealth. The businessman is convinced that the socially adequate distribution of public wealth is essential not only for the proper development of society, but also for its survival. According to Mandjoukov, restrictions should be placed on the imposed consumer urge of the individual and the foundations of education in society should be laid, in which to stimulate the creative and aesthetic principle in man.

Charity
Petar Mandjukov notes that charity is a natural reflex in the rich and successful person.

''Charity is not a guilty conscience, but my message to generations. And to wealthy people. I believe that every worthy person with more opportunities should return to society part of what fate has given him. The perfect contract is a wonderful metaphor, one can even say a dream of a man of word and honor. The family as a personal contract, the state as a social contract, life as a contract between you and the world around you, or the force you think has created and governed this world.''

Public Activity And Donations
Petar Mandjoukov is one of the substantial donors in the construction of the Orthodox Church of the Nativity in the capital's Mladost district, the Church of the Holy Martyr and Archdeacon Stefan in the South Park / Sofia /, the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin in the Pamporovo resort, the cathedral church "St. St. Cyril and Methodius" in Lovech, the church "St. Dimitar" in the village of Brest, Cherven bryag municipality. Peter Mandjoukov built with his own funds the church "Holy Apostles Peter and Paul" in the monastery "Holy Apostles Peter and Paul" near Sofia.

Assists in the restoration of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and the Church of Saint George, Sofia. Petar Mandjoukov is the primary sponsor for the construction of the Eastern Orthodox Church "Holy Transfiguration" in Thrace, Plovdiv.

Petar Mandjoukov is also an active sponsor of Bulgarian culture and literature. He donated over 4,500 volumes of Bulgarian and world classics to 56 Bulgarian community centers, financially supported the Nikolay Haitov Theater in Smolyan, the secondary music school for folk instruments and singing in the village of Shiroka Laka (Smolyan region), the folklore ensemble in the village of Gela (Smolyan region). Thanks to his financial support, the Bulgarian poet Lyubomir Levchev's book "You are the next" was translated into English. That goes also for two books of prof. Bozhidar Dimitrov - "Bulgarians - the first Europeans" and "The Russo-Turkish War of 1878". Petar Mandjoukov supports and produces the performance of "Theatrical World" formation, based on the play by Stefan Tsanev "Hell - this is me".

The businessman is also a sponsor of the Municipality of Plovdiv, donating funds for the construction of footpaths and a video surveillance system on the territory of the old town. Petar Mandjukov and his family personally support disadvantaged children in orphanages in the villages of Stoykite, Smolyan region and in the capital's Dragalevtsi district; patients in need of treatment abroad; sponsor the education of students in the country and abroad. Petar Mandjoukov is a major sponsor in the construction of a medical center and the purchase of equipment and medicines for people with disabilities. Since December 10, 2007 the children's department of the Center for Psychological Research / town of Sofia / bears his name.

Petar Mandjukov was proclaimed Goodwill Ambassador on January 25, 2008. by Jim Ramstad, Congressman in the United States House of Representatives.

On March 18, 2016, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) received a donation from Petar Mandjukov in the amount of BGN 400,000 for research in the field of thracology. The focus of the project is the connection of the current Bulgarians with the Thracian civilization, including DNA analyzes for the study of history. The donation was accepted by the President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Acad. Stefan Vodenicharov, who awarded Petar Mandjiukov with a badge of honor of the President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and a diploma for donation to support the activities of the Academy. In May 2020, Petar Mandjukov donated 6 fully equipped ambulances to the Military Medical Academy - Sofia. The donation was accepted by the director of the hospital - Major General Prof. Dr. Ventsislav Mutafchiiski.

In February 2021, at the Faculty of Biology of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, a Training Center for Molecular Genetics and Functional Genomics was opened at the Department of Genetics. . The establishment of this center is carried out entirely through the Mandjukovi Family Foundation, in response to the appeal of teachers from the Department of Genetics to equip a laboratory with modern equipment for the needs of teaching and practical training of students at the Faculty of Biology. The Dean of the Faculty - Prof. Stoyan Shishkov notes that the donation made by Petar Mandjukov for the Faculty of Biology at Sofia University is the largest in the history of the institution, then the brothers Evlogi and Hristo Georgievi.

Petar Mandjukov is a founder and honorary chairman of the "Association of Family Business - Bulgaria", a member of the Board of the "Union of Bulgarian Chitalishte" and the "Bulgarian Diplomatic Society". One of the founders of the Association "Eastern European University John the Exarch" (Sofia) - a non-governmental organization focused on the development of university education and research, is a corresponding member of the "Ecological Academy" in Kiev (Ukraine). In 1973 he married Reni Mandjoukov, by whom he had a son - Ivaylo Mandjoukov and a grandson - Petar Mandjoukov Jr. Married to Ivaneta Mandjoukov since 2010, from whom he has two sons - Petar Mandjoukov and Alexander Mandjoukov. He speaks French, English and Russian.

Family coat of arms
In 1994, in the first family house in Dragalevtsi, Sofia, a wood-carved triptych was made with a message to the generations, well expressed in the inscription "Creation, dignity, nobility". It reflects Peter Mandjoukov's desire for the upcoming generations to follow these basic principles of behavior in life. The family coat of arms also contains the initials "P", "M", and a stylized figure of an eagle.

Recognition and awards
For his support in the cause of providing equal opportunities for people damaged and affected by natural disasters, on December 6, 2007 Petar Mandjukov was awarded the "Order of Gratitude for Mercy" and was entered in the "Golden European Book of Corporate Donors".

Petar Mandjukov is the holder of the highest order of the Republic of Bulgaria "Stara Planina" I degree (Decree № 228 / 13.06.2002 of President Georgi Parvanov).

Petar Mandjukov accepts the title Archon of the Holy Diocese of Plovdiv, for patronage and assistance in the work of the Holy Diocesan Church of Plovdiv, with a decision of the Plovdiv Diocesan Council, Minutes № 9 of 08.06.2012, Plovdiv, Architectural Sign № 1.

Petar Mandjukov was awarded the title "Honorary Citizen of Plovdiv", for his exceptional charitable merits with lasting value and significance for the development of the city and the municipality, with decision № 431 of the Municipal Council, taken with protocol № 18 of 25.10.2012.

On August 12, 2020 Petar Mandjukov was awarded the title "Honorary Citizen of Sopot", for exceptional donations with lasting value and great significance for the city development.