Ivan Nedelkov

Ivan Nedelkov Shablin was a Bulgarian political activist.

Life

Ivan Shablin was born on January 4, 1881, in the city of Radomir. He graduated from the Telegraph School. He became a member of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists) in 1897.
He worked as a telegraphist. For his involvement in the Transport Strike he was fired.
He took part in the Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party before becoming a founder member of the Bulgarian Communist Party in 1919. After the St Nedelya Church assault in 1925, the Bulgarian police murdered him, perhaps by burning him alive.