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Balkanstroy

Company of Bulgaria

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ4851109
Source-derived summary

Balkanstroy is one of the major construction companies in Bulgaria. It is owned by Nikolay Kaloyanov, Kostadin Kaloyanov, and Yordan Kanazirev. They work on projects in that country and abroad, and have received awards.

The company is the major investor and executor of the "Pirin Golf & Country Club” project, the first vacation golf complex in Bulgaria, which began construction in 2007. The total area of the complex is 1400 decares in the Razlog Valley at the foot of the Pirin Mountains, just three km from the ski resort of Bansko. The company will invest a total of $90 million and employ 540 people in the region during the construction phase; they also built the Lighthouse Gold Resort in Balchik

Balkanstroy was the construction contractor for projects in Sofia such as the Sky City Mall, the Sky Way 4-star hotel and highway projects.

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The public source identifies “Balkanstroy” as company of Bulgaria. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Balkanstroy, Company and Bulgaria.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 1400—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Balkanstroy, Company and Bulgaria providing the first useful test.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4851109. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007 and 1400.

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This entry incorporates text from Balkanstroy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.