Dimitrovgrad

Dimitrovgrad may refer to settlements in three different countries, all (re)named after Georgi Dimitrov (1882-1949), the first leader of Communist Bulgaria:


 * Dimitrovgrad (Bulgaria) — a "planned city" built from scratch in South-Central Bulgaria in the 1940s
 * Dimitrovgrad (Russia) — an industrial city in Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia; it was called Melekess until 1972
 * Dimitrovgrad (Serbia) — a town in Eastern Serbia, annexed from Bulgaria after World War I; it was called Caribrod (Tsaribrod) until 1950

Not to be confused with

 * Dmitrov — a town in North Moscow Oblast, Russia, named after St. Demetrius.