Concert Featuring Singer Desi Dobreva, Bulgarian Folk Dance Groups from Delzhyler, Kamchik, Kulevcha Takes Place in Odesa

The Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) together with the Consulate General of Bulgaria in Odesa organized a concert with the participation of the singer Desi Dobreva and Bulgarian folk dance groups from the villages of Delzhyler, Kamchik and Kulevcha on Saturday.

The event is dedicated to the commemoration of October 29 - the day when the Bolhrad Cathedral of the Holy Transfiguration was consecrated in 1838, built with funds from ethnic Bulgarians in the region.

The concert took place on a stage provided by Odesa City Hall in the central park across from the city's BTA National Press Club.

At the end of the concert, an air raid alarm was issued. According to information on local channels on Telegram, there was a threat from a reconnaissance drone that was circling over the port city in Southwestern Ukraine. Local authorities urged people to seek shelter.

On the occasion of the Day of the Bessarabian Bulgarians, a meeting of representatives of Bulgarians from different settlements in the Odesa Region with BTA Director General Kiril Valchev and the Consul General of Bulgaria in Odesa, Svetoslav Ivanov, wtook place before the performance at BTA's National Press Club.

Odesa Province is home to the third largest community of expatriate Bulgarians, numbering more than 150,000 people, according to an official population census in Ukraine in 2001. Between 50,000 and 60,000 Bulgarians live in the provincial capital, Odesa. Bulgarians in the province are concentrated in the districts of Bolhrad, Izmail, and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi.

/MR/