site.btaLIK Magazine's July Issue Dedicated to Albena Resort's 55th Anniversary

The 55th anniversary of the opening of the Black Sea resort of Albena is the subject of the July issue of Bulgarian News Agency's (BTA) LIK magazine. In a thematic chronology, the July issue follows news about the resort present in the archive bulletins and BTA feeds. Publications about it date back to the mid-1960s, when the idea of such a tourist spot first began to be discussed.

The construction of the complex, its opening on August  24, 1969, and its development over the years are topics that have been covered by BTA journalists and highlights of them appear in the pages of the magazine. 

BTA Director General Kiril Valchev said that the BTA archives hold a lot of news about the youngest of Bulgaria's major Black Sea resorts, allowing people to learn much more than just facts about this iconic place over its more than half-century history. In the introduction of the July issue, Valchev describes five lessons for the modern times that can be found in the history of the resort - one for each of the five decades of Albena. 

In the BTA edition you can read interviews with engineer Svetoslav Georgiev, who is one of the pioneers in the construction of the resort, Albena AD CEO Krasimir Stanev and Albena Tour CEO Krasimira Stoyanova. 

The title of the July issue of LIK magazine - "55 years of our Albena in our hearts" is inspired by a poem by Nedyalko Yordanov. In 1975, based on his text and with music and arrangement by Nayden Andreev, Margarita Hranova performed the song Albena - a kind of anthem of the resort. LIK magazine followed the trail of the song and talked to both the author of the lyrics and the popular performer to learn how the idea for the work came about and how it left its mark on the musical history and the history of the resort.