Career
Boyan Radev is also a well-known art collector and artist sponsor. Boyan Radev wrestled for Minyor Pernik, Orlin Pirdop, CSKA Sofia and Spartak Sofia. He has also silver medals at the 1962 and 1967 World Cups as well as the 1968 European Championships.
Radev ends his wrestling career shortly after the merger of Spartak Sofia and Levski Sofia in 1971.
Thereafter, he works for the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Bulgaria. He has worked for the Bulgarian Committee for State Security since 1964.
Radev is a colonel at the time of his retirement. As Radev said himself, he became a vivid art collector after he was gifted a painting by the artist Stoyan Illiev.
Since then, Radev has become a well-known art collector, philanthropist and donor in Bulgaria.
Radev has donated all of his wrestling medals as well as his Madara (Bulgarian State Order) and Peter the Great (Russian State Order) to the National Historical Museum (Bulgaria) – making him the number one donor to the museum.
