Bolhrad High School

Bolhrad High School
The building of the Bolhrad High School
Location
Bolhrad, Odessa Oblast Ukraine
Coordinates	45°40′32″N 28°36′57″E / 45.6756°N 28.6157°E / 45.6756; 28.6157Coordinates: 45°40′32″N 28°36′57″E / 45.6756°N 28.6157°E / 45.6756; 28.6157
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Founded	1858

The Georgi Sava Rakovski Bolhrad High School (Ukrainian: Болградська гімназія ім. Г.С. Раковського, Bolhrads′ka himnaziya im. H.S. Rakovs′koho); Bulgarian: Болградска гимназия „Георги Сава Раковски“, Bolgradska gimnazia „Georgi Sava Rakovski“) is a gymnasium (high school) in Bolhrad, Odessa Oblast, southwestern Ukraine. Founded in 1858 at the request of Bolhrad's Bessarabian Bulgarian population, the Bolhrad Gymnasium is regarded as the oldest high school of the Bulgarian National Revival.

Bolgrad Glacier in Sentinel Range, Antarctica is named after the Bulgarian High School of Bolhrad.

The Russo-Turkish Wars of the late 18th and early 19th century prompted many Bulgarians to leave the Ottoman Empire and settle in the southern domains of the Russian Empire and specifically in the Governorate of Bessarabia. These Bessarabian Bulgarians, together with Gagauz people founded 43 villages in Bessarabia, as well as the cities of Bolhrad and Comrat. As early as 1832, Ukrainian Slavist Yuriy Venelin had suggested that Bolhrad become a centre of Bulgarian culture and education in the Russian Empire; however, the idea was not put into practice at the time.