St. Anastasia Island

St. Anastasia Island is a Bulgarian islet in the Black Sea. It is found 1.5 km off the drift close Chernomorets, at 12 meters above ocean level, and covers a region of one hectare. It is the main occupied island off the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. The island is provided with power and drinking water. It is named after the previous St. Anastasia cloister situated on it. The religious community had existed since the Middle Ages and was recreated amid the eighteenth nineteenth century. It has been relinquished since 1923, when the island was changed into a jail.

In 1925, a gathering of 43 political detainees communists and hostile to fascists, drove by Teohar Bakardzhiev, revolted and got away from the island, in this manner escaping to the Soviet Union. In their respect, the island was renamed Bolshevik Island when the communists came into control in 1945. Bulgarian movie chief Rangel Valchanov construct his 1958 film In light of The Small Island on this occasion. A Bulgarian Burgas-based week by week daily paper, Factor, announced in 2006 that the Movement for Rights and Freedoms pioneer, Ahmed Dogan, went to the island and communicated want to privatize it. The Bulgarian Orthodox Church, be that as it may, which asserts the island is its property, would hear none of this.