activist Krsto Germov, and to his right is the first president of
ASNOM Metodija Andonov-Čento. He was born in
Veles (then known by the name Köprülü) in the
Kosovo vilayet of the
Ottoman Empire (present-day
North Macedonia) on 9 August 1883, where he graduated from a
Bulgarian Exarchate's primary school. Subsequently, Brashnarov graduated from the Bulgarian pedagogical school in Skopje. Later he worked as a Bulgarian Exarchate teacher. He joined the
Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO). In 1903 he took part in the
Ilinden Uprising. He was mobilized in the Bulgarian army during the
First World War and participated in the battles of the
Macedonian front. Because of his political convictions, he was sentenced to seven years in prison in the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia. While he was imprisoned in
Maribor, in an article in the newspaper
Makedonsko Delo from 25 June 1929,
Dimitar Vlahov referred to him as a
Macedonian Bulgarian. After his release in 1936 he remained politically passive. When
Bulgaria occupied and later annexed
Vardar Banovina in 1941, he was one of the founders of the
Bulgarian Action Committees. Until 1943, Brashnarov worked again as a Bulgarian teacher. In the same year, Brashnarov became politically active again and joined the
Macedonian partisan movement there fighting against the
Axis powers. On 2 August 1944, the first session of the
Antifascist Assembly of the National Liberation of Macedonia (ASNOM) took place at the St.
Prohor Pčinjski monastery. Brashnarov served as vice-president of the Presidium and as the first speaker. He did so together with Shatev. Brashnarov regarded the
Macedonian alphabet as being under the influence of Serbian. Afterwards he was sent to the
Goli Otok labor camp in the next year where he served for ten days, until his death on 13 July 1951. According to
Venko Markovski, his family honored him with a communist-style inscription in the Veles cemetery. Two years after his death, he was buried in the cemeteries in
Zagreb. His grave was found in 2011 in Zagreb at the
Mirogoj Cemetery by a Macedonian team of journalists, where he was reburied in a mass grave of prisoners from Goli Otok after two exhumations in 1971 and the 1980s. ==Legacy==