Evlogi Georgiev Boulevard
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Evlogi Georgiev Boulevard is an important boulevard
Boulevard
A Boulevard is type of road, usually a wide, multi-lane arterial thoroughfare, divided with a median down the centre, and roadways along each side designed as slow travel and parking lanes and for bicycle and pedestrian usage, often with an above-average quality of landscaping and scenery...

 in the Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

n capital Sofia
Sofia
Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

. It is named after the Bulgarian
Bulgarians
The Bulgarians are a South Slavic nation and ethnic group native to Bulgaria and neighbouring regions. Emigration has resulted in immigrant communities in a number of other countries.-History and ethnogenesis:...

 entrepreneur Evlogi Georgiev
Evlogi Georgiev
Evlogi Georgiev was a major Bulgarian merchant, banker and benefactor. The main building of the Sofia University was built with a large financial donation by him and his brother Hristo Georgiev.-Biography:...

. It begins with its intersection with the Cherni Vrah Boulevard and Fridtjof Nansen Street in the area of the National Palace of Culture
National Palace of Culture
The National Palace of Culture , located in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, is the largest multifunctional congress, conference, convention and exhibition centre in Southeastern Europe...

. To the south of the NPC it is called Bulgaria Boulevard
Bulgaria Boulevard, Sofia
Bulgaria Boulevard is a boulevard and key thoroughfare connecting the centre of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, with the southern neighbourhoods of the city and Boyana....

.

Evlogi Georgiev Blvd is crossed by several of the capital's major transport arteries such as the Dragan Tsankov Boulevard
Dragan Tsankov Boulevard
Dragan Tsvetkov Boulevard is a large boulevard in Bulgaria's capital Sofia. It is named after the Bulgarian politician Dragan Tsankov. It lies between its intersection with the Evlogi Georgiev Boulevard, before which it is called Graf Ignatiev Street, and the juncture with G. M. Dimitrov...

 and Graf Ignatiev Street
Graf Ignatiev Street
Graf Ignatiev Street , usually called Grafa is a popular central street in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. It was named after the Russian statesman and diplomat Count Nicholas Pavlovich Ignatiev...

 (which form one juncture with Evlogi Georgiev) and Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard
Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard
Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard is a boulevard in the centre of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It lies between Orlov most to the east and Nezavisimost Square to the west, where it merges with Knyaz Aleksandar Dondukov Boulevard to form Todor Aleksandrov Boulevard west of the square...

 and Tsarigrad Road
Tsarigrad Road
Tsarigradsko shose is the largest boulevard in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia. It begins from Orlov Most , before which it is called Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard, and in the end becomes part of the Trakiya motorway . It runs from the north-west to the south-east...

 at Orlov Most
Orlov most
Eagles' Bridge is a bridge over the Perlovska River in the centre of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It gives the name to the important and busy juncture at which it is located...

 (which also form one juncture).

Along the boulevard are situated the National Stadium Vasil Levski, 120 High School Georgi S. Rakovski, Pope John Paul II Square, Military Academy G. S. Rakovski
Rakovski Defence and Staff College
The Rakovski Defence and Staff College , based in Sofia, is Bulgaria's oldest military institution of higher education. It was officially established on 1 March 1912 with an act of the National Assembly of Bulgaria and opened on 4 January 1915, delayed due to the Balkan Wars.Since its creation, the...

, Spanish Language School and others.
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