Boris Drangov

Boris Stoyanov Drangov (; ; 15 March 1872 – 26 May 1917) was a Bulgarian Army officer and warfare pedagogue.

Biography Drangov was born in Skopje in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia (today the capital of North Macedonia), to the family of a rich timber merchant. He graduated from the local Bulgarian Pedagogical School. In 1891, he enrolled in the Military School in the capital of Principality of Bulgaria – Sofia. After a conflict with an officer, he was dispatched to Plovdiv in 1894. A few months later, his punishment was overturned and he continued his education at the Military School.

In 1895, Drangov was promoted to lieutenant and appointed a junior officer in the 3rd Cavalry Regiment in Plovdiv. There he wrote his Detailed Program for Training Young and Old Soldiers in the Infantry, which marked the beginning of Bulgarian military pedagogy and which underwent four editions in the following years. On January 21, 1898, he was appointed a junior officer in the Fourth Squadron of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Lom. In 1899, he became a senior lieutenant. In the town, Drangov met his future wife Raina Drangova, the daughter of the Bulgarian revolutionary Denko Nikolov Popov from Mlado Nagorichene, whom he married in 1900.