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Lyudmil Kirkov is a Bulgarian film director. He was born on December 14, 1933 in the town of Vratsa and died at the age of 61 in 1995. The idea for the construction of the monument came from an initiative committee of Vratsa public figures, chaired by Filip Trifonov, who played the boy Ran in the Bulgarian film shot in Vratsa. "The Boy is Going Away". The bas-relief was unveiled during the celebrations of "Botev Days 2019" - on May 24, 2019. Lyudmil Kirkov has made 16 films about Bulgarian cinema, including "The Boy Is Going Away" and its sequel "Don't Go Away!" - filmed in the city of Vratsa, "A Nameless Band", "Matriarchy", "The Peasant with the Wheel", "Equilibrium", "Short Sun", "Swedish Kings", "Friday Night", "I don't know, I didn't hear, I didn't see", "Short Sun","Armando", "The End of a Vacation" and others. He is a holder of the Order of Cyril and Methodius, first and second degree. He received the Critics' and Ministry of Education Award for the film The Boy Goes Away. Second prize and the critics' award for the film "The Peasant with a Wheel", as well as an award at the Ninth International Film Festival in Moscow in 1975. The film "A Nameless Band" received the director's award of the Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers and the Grand Prize of the International Comedy Film Festival in Gabrovo in 1983