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Kamen Donev

Bulgarian actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ12282478
Source-derived summary

Kamen Ivanchev Donev (Bulgarian: Камен Иванчев Донев; born 15 April 1971) is a Bulgarian actor, film director, dramaturgist, and choreographer.

Education and Career

Donev studied acting at NATFIZ, graduating in 1993. Between 1994 and 2009, he was an actor in the Bulgarian Army Theatre (Bulgarian: Театър „Българска армия“). In 2000 and 2001, Donev was part of the cast of the TV show "The Street" (Bulgarian: Улицата), which was directed by Tedy Moskov. He is well-known for his comic sketches.

Editorial summary

“Kamen Donev” enters the record as bulgarian actor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kamen, Donev and Bulgarian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 1993, 1994, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971-04-15. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kamen, Donev and Bulgarian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Kamen Donev” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kamen, Donev and Bulgarian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q12282478. VIAF identifies the subject as 16995823. The Library of Congress control number is no2007024987. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971, 1993, 1994 and 2009.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  2. Expand the search: follow Kamen Donev primary sources, Kamen Donev archive and Kamen research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from Kamen Donev” 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.