A fire loomed at a waste deposit pit near the town of Haskovo, southern Bulgaria. The firemen team is trying to localize the fire and prevent it from reaching the nearby farmlands planted with ripening sunflower.    Photo: BTA

Construction works in the new zoo in the city of Plovdiv are to be completed shortly. The zoo is expected to open in early autumn.  Photo: BGNES

Yacht Club Captain Georgi Georgiev – Port Varna launches for the 41^st time the regatta PORT VARNA 2016. After the disputed races in the class Conrad 25 last weekend, the PORT VARNA regatta offers opportunity to the competing crews to get their revenge. In addition, the yachts of the Free Style will compete in maritime races to turning point and aircraft buoys. For the joy of all citizens and guests of Varna, the yachts will finish close to the sand beach.     Photo: BULFOTO

Sixty six newly recruited military (including16 women) admitted to serve in the military formations of the Second Tundzha Mechanized Brigade in the garrison of Stara Zagora made their military oath.  Photo: BTA

In many places the harvest of cereals in Varna District (northeastern Bulgaria) is now completed and the farmers started collecting the bales of straw in order to start preparing the soil for the planting of winter wheat.    Photo: BGNES

Troyan Monastery received as a gift a Kotel-made carpet, 200 years of age.  The carpet, which is in very well preserved, is handmade of cotton and wool. It contains the ornamental elements characteristic of the weaving school of the small town of Kotel (in the eastern part of the Balkan Range). The carpet was made in the 18^th century as a commission for the Town hall in Sofia, the donor of the carpet, Vanyo Donchev from Veliko Tarnovo explains. Banyo Donchev also gave to the Monastery and to Bishop Sioniy and book “The Bulgarian Monsteries” written by Milyu Popov and published back in 1914. The book is proclaimed a curiosity rarity.     Photo: BTA