ABSTRACT
My late Father was a power engineer, all his working life employed in the Elektrownia Blachownia (Blachownia Power Plant) in Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Upper Silesia, Poland. He graduated from Wrocław Polytechnics, Poland, where he made friends with the Bulgarian student, Aglaida (Аглаида). They kept in touch until the fall of communism by the way of exchanging Christmas or New Year cards each year. Perhaps this personal connection convinced Father to apply for the temporary post of power engineer at the construction site of a new power plant, Марица Maritsa 3, in the Bulgarian town of Dimitrovgrad (Димитровград in Bulgarian, Dimitrovgrad in Turkish). Father was responsible for the installation and the starting of the turbines there in 1971. He did two tours of duty to Dimitrovgrad, each lasting for half a year. The first one in 1971 and the other in 1972 in order to keep an eye on the turbines during their initial period of work.
