Naimushin, Boris2026-07-102026-07-1020263033-0599 (Online)https://doi.uni-plovdiv.bg/handle/store/1039This article is part of an undefended and unpublished dissertation on the history of diplomatic interpreting in Bulgaria from 1944 to 1974, in comparison with the Soviet Union, the United States, Cuba, Romania, and Hungary. Based on archival documents, memoirs, interviews, media reports, photographs, and newsreels, this text traces the efforts of Bulgaria and the USSR to address the situation arising from the shortage of experienced diplomats and diplomatic interpreters following the purges in the USSR in the 1930s and in Bulgaria after the coup of 9 September 1944.otherinterpretingconference interpretingdiplomatic interpretinghistory of interpretingOther