Pythintziev, Gancho (Veles, 30. 1905 – Skopje, 20. ⅹⅰⅰ 2002) – Exercise in sports gymnastics, physical education teacher and ethnocoreologist. Member and instructor of Sokolsal organizations (1920-1941). After the Second World War, he was a member of numerous gymnasium unions and associations, as an expert and author of academic compositions and blind exercises. As an associate of the Folklore Institute, he recorded over 7,500 folk creations (10. and 1952 – 27. ⅹⅰⅰ 1967), and significant parts of them were published in the three books “Macedonian People’s Ora”, in co-authorship with J. Firfov and independently. BBB. Macedonian People’s Order from Maleshevo, Delchevsko, Kocani, Svetilosko, Stip, Radovish, Strumica and Valandovo, book 1, Institute for Folklore, Skopje, 1973. Lit.: Gancho Pythtonziev (autobiography), “articles about the history of physical culture”, Skopje , 1983, 106-124. Dr. O. Rajko Pakaski
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