Missing woman, a relay run and night at the museum in Shumen

Shumen police are searching for Anka Ivanova Ilieva, 64, from the village of Izbul near Novi Pazar, who has been missing since around 02:00 on 24 May. She was last seen by her sister wearing blue jeans, a green waistcoat and a blue headscarf. Ilieva is short with a slight build and brown eyes. She had gone missing once before about ten days earlier and was found in the village of Zlatna Niva. Anyone with information is asked to call 112 or 054-800588.

A relay run titled 'Panayot Volov: 150 Years of Immortality' set off from the Panayot Volov house-museum in Shumen this morning, bound for the revolutionary's monument in Byala (Ruse region). Twelve members of Shumen's early-morning running club will cover 120 kilometres, each running two five-kilometre legs. Runners from Byala will join them at the finish, where wreaths and flowers will be laid. Shumen municipality is providing food, water and transport. The run is part of wider commemorations of the 150th anniversary of the April Uprising and Volov's death. A torchlit procession and ceremony will follow tomorrow evening on Oborishte Square.

Stancho Valev, 83, the last living witness to the discovery of the Preslav gold treasure, recounted the story at Veliki Preslav's archaeological museum during Night of the Museums. Valev was brigade leader of a team planting vines near the old capital on 11 April 1976 when labourers unearthed gold necklaces, earrings and a ring. He collected the finds in a cloth and took them to the town hall. After bureaucratic delay, a seven-member commission accepted the treasure, which archaeologist Totyu Totev later studied in a monograph. Only one member of the brigade, Mariyka Vicheva, received formal recognition: she was named an honorary citizen and awarded a second state pension. Valev's wife Krastinka remains the only Preslav resident to have worn the royal necklace around her neck, though no photograph exists. The family now spans two daughters, four grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren, and the story of the gold is a regular topic at gatherings.

A one-way traffic system is in force today from 15:00 to 20:00 on the approach to the Founders of the Bulgarian State monument. Traffic will run uphill from Kyoshkovete Park via 'Staria Grad' to the monument car park, and downhill via Vladaysko Vastanie street. Parking on Kristal square and in front of the town hall (Karel Skorpil to Adam Mickiewicz) is also suspended until 20:00. The temporary plan is managed by the municipal enterprise Blagoustroystvo i Komunalno Stopanstvo.

Planned maintenance on electricity distribution infrastructure may cause brief power cuts (around 30 minutes) in parts of Shumen and surrounding areas today and in the coming days. Today from 09:00 to 16:00, Lale street in Shumen may be affected. Until 29 May, maintenance is scheduled for Tsarkivitsa and Novi Pazar (multiple streets) during the same hours.