Jordan Nikolov was a communist and partisan from Macedonia Orce Nikolov (Орце Николов) . His life and work are connected with the organizing and firming of the syndicalist movement in Macedonia. Under his leadership in Macedonia, the first protests were undertaken, and the workers succeed for the first time to conclude collective contracts with the employers.

In August 1940 Orce Nikolov was arrested on account of the break-up of the 1st of May proclamation of Central Committee of CPY, and the organizing of the Ilinden celebration in Macedonia. He was taken to Great Kikinda, where in prison he organized a protest. Then in Lepoglava, he was sentenced for two years in a strict prison and is transferred to the prison in Sremska Mitrovica

Sremska Mitrovica

Sremska Mitrovica is a city and municipality located in the Vojvodina province of Serbia, on the left bank of the Sava river. As of 2002 the town had a total population of 39,041, while Sremska Mitrovica municipality had a population of 85,605...

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While he was in prison, on the 5th earthy meeting he was chosen as a candidate for a member of CC of CPY. On 22 August 1941, together with several other prisoners he escapes from captivity and manages to enter the free territory of the Republic of Užice

Republic of Užice

The Republic of Užice was a short-lived liberated Yugoslav territory and the first liberated territory in World War II Europe, organized as a military mini-state that existed in the autumn of 1941 in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia, more specifically the western part of Serbia...

 where the supreme headquarters of the Yugoslav partisan forces was stationed.

He was given a task to go to Macedonia and work on the organizing of an armed uprising.

In December 1941, he tries to achieve his task over the mountain of Kukavica

Kukavica

Kukavica is a mountain in central Serbia, near the town of Vladičin Han. Its highest peak Vlajna has an altitude of 1442 meters above sea level....

, but was unsuccessful. On the second attempt he dies near Vladicin Han on 4 January 1942, shot by the Bulgarian police.