Marko Lerinski

Georgi Ivanov Gyurov (; 20 June 1862 – 13 June 1902), known under the alias Marko Lerinski , was a Bulgarian military officer and revolutionary. He was one of Internal Macedonian–Adrianople Revolutionary Organization's most effective leaders in the Lerin (Florina) district.

Life Georgi Ivanov Gyurov was born on 20 June 1862 in Kotel in Ottoman Rumelia (Northern Thrace), today a town in central eastern Bulgaria. In 1883, he joined the Principality of Bulgaria's armed forces. He took part in the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885. For his bravery, he was awarded a medal and promoted. In 1895, he participated in Supreme Macedonian–Adrianople Committee, anti-Ottoman action as part of Stoyo Kostov's detachment, which involved an attack on Dospat. After the action, he returned to the army. Lerinski created a training center in the Lerin district in the 1900s, where he trained aspiring voivodes. Thanks to Lerinski's military training and his organizational abilities, his detachment became a school for voivodes and members of IMARO. According to fellow IMARO member and writer Hristo Silyanov, Marko Lerinski turned Lerin into "... a region of model in every respect. Enthustiastic activists, strict organization, a disciplined and, in the full sense of the words, propagandist and organizational detachment. That was all the work of Marko from Kotel."

Lerinski was the first person to suggest a common uprising in both Macedonia and the Adrianople Vilayet, an idea that would be put into practice with the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising of 1903. Lerinski died in a clash with Ottoman forces in Patele (Agios Panteleimonas, Florina, Greece) on 13 June 1902.