Shumen Municipality ( Bulgarian : Община Шумен ) is a municipality ( obshtina ) in Shumen Province , Northeastern Bulgaria . It is named after its administrative centre - the city of Shumen which is also the capital of the province.
8-462: The municipality embraces a territory of 630 km (240 sq mi) with a population of 101,597 inhabitants, as of December 2009. Currently, the eastern operating section of Hemus motorway connects the main town with the port of Varna . Aside from the rich cultural landmarks of the main city, the area is most known with the National Historical and Archaeological Reserve that includes
16-451: Is a partially built motorway in Bulgaria . Its planned length is 418 km, of which 191 km are in operation as of October 2022 . The motorway in operation is divided into two sections — the first one links the capital Sofia with Boaza near Yablanitsa , crossing Stara planina ( Balkan Mountains ), and the second segment connects Varna and Buhovtsi near Targovishte . According to
24-694: The Hemus motorway was officially opened on 5 December 1999. Due to the mountainous terrain through the Balkans , the 5.47 km section together with another 16 km reconstructed, features two viaducts and one tunnel ( Praveshki hanove ), while the whole Sofia–Yablanitsa section has three more tunnels. The construction of the Pravets–Yablanitsa section began in 1984 but ceased in the late 1980s due to lack of funds to eventually be finished in 1998–1999. The 12.8 km section connecting Shumen with Kaspichan to
32-587: The east was opened on 30 December 2005 and cost 77.6 million leva . In August 2015, a 4.9 km segment, including the Belokopitovo interchange (with I-2 road ), was inaugurated. In October 2019, а 9.3 km segment, connecting Yablanitsa with the I-4 road near the Boaza ravine of Vit , was inaugurated. In October 2022, а 16.3 km segment, connecting Belokopitovo with the village of Buhovtsi near Targovishte ,
40-417: The famous Madara Rider near the homonymous village. Shumen Municipality includes the following 27 places (towns are shown in bold): The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades. Since 1992 Shumen Municipality has comprised the former municipality of Ivanski and the numbers in the table reflect this unification. According to the 2011 census, among those who answered
48-439: The optional question on ethnic identification, the ethnic composition of the municipality was the following: According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following: Hemus motorway The Hemus motorway ( Bulgarian : Автомагистрала „Хемус“ , Avtomagistrala "Hemus" ) or Haemus motorway , designated A2 ,
56-640: The plans, Hemus motorway would connect Sofia with the third-largest city of Varna, at the Black Sea coast, duplicating European route E70 (Varna–Shumen), European route E772 (Shumen–Yablanitsa) and European route E83 (Yablanitsa–Sofia). The construction of the motorway officially began. The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by the First Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP), Todor Zhivkov . The Pravets – Yablanitsa section of
64-522: Was inaugurated. In January 2013 National Company "Strategic Infrastructure Projects" (NCSIP), a state-run company, tendered feasibility study for the remaining sections of Hemus motorway (Yablanitsa- Panayot Volovo ). In 2014 NCSIP signed contracts for drawing conceptual designs for all 8 lots of the motorway. In January 2015, a tender for design and build of 2 lots, between Yablanitsa and the Pleven/Lovech road, has been announced by NCSIP. In 2016 NCSIP
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