In which year was the coldest winter in Bulgaria?
In the past, winters in Bulgaria were much colder than today. Therefore, there are quite a few years of “candidates” for the winter temperature championship.
But by general recognition, the winter of 1954 was the coldest. Then the Danube partially froze for 89 days – from December 21, 1953 to March 19, 1954, and the entire complete freeze lasted 66 days. It also snowed a lot in 1963. For the children, it was an occasion for all kinds of winter games and fun – for example, jumping from the second floor straight into the snowdrifts.
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In Dobrudja in 1954, the snow was very fluffy because of the low temperatures. Roads in the region were closed everywhere – only the train traveled and only as far as Todorovo, Isperih municipality. The decision was deliberate by the more intelligent and enterprising people, who transported those who wished by sledges – this also had their convenience, because it was possible to travel more directly through the snowfields, without having to follow the turns on the congested roads. Those who lived in the new era remember how they traveled from Silistra to Todorovo in February 1954. There were “caravans” of sledges with two horses and three passengers in each; sometimes half were students returning from winter break and the others office workers on a business trip. Before the withdrawal, the coachmen gave everyone a “mushroom” – a long thick fur coat, sometimes weighing about 30 kilograms, prepared the loaded hunting rifles for protection against wolves, which were not uncommon in modern times, and explained to the passengers how to behave during the journey. Usually, the howling of the wolves began to be heard shortly after the departure, the horses were frightened – but a few warning shots in the direction of the guns drove the packs away. The distance from Silistra to the village of Okorsh in Dulov was covered in about 17 hours – there was the intermediate stop, where the passengers ate and warmed themselves with hot tea, usually made from herbs, rose hips and linden. Everyone slept in one room, each on a separate mattress on the floor. The next morning they continued to Todorovo station – now the journey was much shorter and they managed to catch the noon train to Sofia.
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That same year, in many places, the sleepers reached the roofs of the lower houses. In the snow they were clearing slush; for the children they were downright real tunnels through which they went to school. There were also curiosities in the “corridors of power”, then what would be more accurate to call the “snow tunnels of power” – government ministers, together with cleaners and guards from the Council of Ministers went out to clean the snow and pave paths slept in the snow.
Indeed, 1954, according to experts, is considered the coldest winter in Bulgaria. But the curious thing is that this assessment applies generally and in principle to the whole country. However, the lowest temperature was not measured then, but in 1947 in the city of Trung – where the thermometer dropped to -38.3 degrees.
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