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Valeri Petrov was fluent in
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Valeri Petrov after the awarding of the memorial sign "Marin Drinov" from the
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On 27 August 2014, Petrov died from a stroke in a Sofia hospital. He was 94.
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teacher Mariya
Petrova, Valeri Petrov studied at the
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