Monument “The Golden Age”
Location: Shumen, Bulgaria
Completed: 1979
Sculptor: Valentin Starchev
Genre: Socialist monument, former Eastern Bloc
The sculpture represents a symbolic Bulgarian scholar and has been located outside Shumen’s Stilian Chilingirov Regional Library since 1981 when the building was completed.
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Thank you! We have the book but were not aware of the website.