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He had no months to gather journalists and friends for his 50th anniversary benefit.
At exactly 33 years old, Nikolay Tomov was the editor-in-chief of Veliko Tarnovo’s Borba newspaper, making him the longest-surviving in the press of that post.
It took him less than a few months to turn 50 years in this profession, when he began in the same regional newspaper as a curator: a child who walked the journalists’ rooms, collected their materials, painted the models of the pages by hand, sent them. at the press and waiting for the first issues …
2 years ago he took a heroic but masculine step: he married Tanya after a long, long courtship and togetherness.
“Look at me,
Look at me
In the eyes!”,
He tells you in the video of this photo (see above) And Tomic, as his closest friends called him, did it for decades for the woman they worked with, traveled the world and finally hid from COVID in his Kozar Belene.
From there he joked about the infection, and Tanya, risking insulting him, convinced herself that this time too “his village seed will save him from death” …
He died early Thursday morning, at the age of 73, in Pleven, where another man of whom he was extremely proud hoped to save him: his nephew, Professor Dr. Slavcho Tomov, rector of the University of Medicine.
Journalism has been my destiny for almost 50 years, I have gone through all the steps. They say: if you get dirty with ink, you end up with it. I can not do anything else.
This was shared 3 years ago by Nikolay Tomov in an interview for “24 Chasa”. He started working for Borba on April 1, 1971 and 16 years later became editor-in-chief. An exceptional professional, a man of inexhaustible energy, Nikolai was able to enjoy life and share that joy. He reached 65 countries, but his soul always remained in Veliko Tarnovo.
After November 1989, the regional newspapers were crushed. Most disappeared. All were organs of the district committee of the party, the district popular council and the district committee of the Patriotic Front.
And when democracy came, I asked the municipality to help us financially. They voted to resign Borba. They took everything from us: a car, equipment. We survived by starting to publish books.
This is how Tomov describes his history before and after the changes in Bulgaria. Classic! He never changed the large format of “Borba” nor the “partisan” name of the newspaper.
It was difficult for him to accept the passage to the site, because according to him, life is more truly described on paper.
I was modest when
you are yourself
called
“Provincial”
Editor-in-Chief: “We benefit from the central press because people know its news on television and radio, and the locals have nowhere to learn it. This niche gives us the opportunity to exist. And to survive, you have to be very careful: readers see what is happening in the small town, where everyone knows each other.
You cannot distort things because you lose confidence. I have had many problems with politicians. As I was a member of the Communist Party of Bulgaria, they told me: “Why are you fighting against the red mayor?”
A district governor, who was renovating his office with state money and buying it for pennies, threw us out with the police from the editorial office where we were tenants. So “24 hours” was the only one who defended us.
A royal MP wrote a 6 page complaint against me, they sent an investigator from Ruse to investigate me. They audited me for 6 months and then they punished the auditor because they found no infraction. A blue deputy condemned me because we had written that there were property claims in Arbanassi. Then he came and asked me for 2,000 BGN to stop the case …
Tomov himself
worried
invading
the profession of
too
ambitious people,
that too easily ruin human destinies, businesses …
You make the feeling, people buy the newspaper, but what happens on the other side? We strive to be accurate and objective. This is our principle.
That is why I was very proud that “Borba” is the only media outlet in Bulgaria with an award from the World Organization of Newspapers; appreciated the children’s app “Notebook for Everything”.
Until recently, you wondered why print publishers were at war with each other when everyone was trying to fight newspapers.
“If there was a print media organization, we would know who represents what, to defend our interests.”
What Tomica could not do for the guild, he did for several famous people from Veliko Tarnovo, whom he gathered every Tuesday: the “Ramatiz” group. The name came up as a joke when men began to complain of various rheumatic diseases.
Next Friday, Veliko Tarnovo and the Ramatiz group will send their editor-in-chief.
Prof. Ivan Haralampiev, former rector of VTU “St. Saint Cyril and Methodius ”: I lost my brother, not just a friend who saved“ Borba ”
Nikolai Tomov is not just a friend. We, some of our famous circle, jokingly called “Ramatiz”, consider ourselves brothers. And I always felt like a brother.
I would not like to talk about him as a journalist, but this is the man who saved Borba. To this day, this newspaper maintains the tradition, at least: when we see the form, it will immediately smell of our youth and other years. He knew how to handle his newspaper and he was an extremely good man. He was willing to make a gesture, to do anything for a friend and not just for a person in need. Very dedicated and modest.
And I was very curious, when I was a kid! That is why he traveled often. He had not seen the world. The last year has come to an abrupt halt, perhaps due to some suffering, and the time has come for the illness that took it away. He also traveled to Bulgaria, especially the Rhodopes. I wanted to see, I didn’t have enough.
One year, the group was on Mount Athos, the “Zograf” monastery. Nikolai has leg problems and walked more than us. He was sick, but his spirit was incredible. It had a very strong root.
He accepted the good, especially the good song, in a very interesting way. I was crying. He didn’t sing himself, he did it in company.
Our last meeting was at a restaurant just before my birthday on November 11. He had isolated himself in his native Kozar Belene so that the virus would not attack him; he was touchy.
He was the godfather of the Ramatiz Club and insisted on it. We even think about writing a club history, we think about many things, but it will be difficult for us next time. As my wife says: “You are very good, you are wonderful, but I hope that the time does not come for one of you to leave.”
The whole company went abroad. In Portugal we rented a bus and toured the whole country. We went to their biggest fado club. People drank brandy as a digestif, at the end. We drank his brandy …
We don’t have a chance to fight. In our company we were not divided into a person in high position or a person with money, and the others did not have as much. We have not specifically agreed, but we have no such thing. Perhaps because we are not talking about politics.
I know there were other people in the club who came and went or rejected them. So we are like strained yogurt. We stay with people we know and our canines. Nikolai was the lifeblood of the company. How we will drive without a soul, I don’t know!
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