{"id":1753,"date":"2010-01-01T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/uncategorized\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria-january-28\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:59:00","slug":"on-this-day-in-bulgaria-january-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria-january-28\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in Bulgaria: January 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 28 gave Bulgaria&#8217;s history two founding moments separated by half a century \u2014 one in the arts, one beneath the streets \u2014 both of which changed how the country thought about public life.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>January 28, 1948 \u2014 Bulgaria&#8217;s State Higher Theatre School Is Established<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The State Higher Theatre School was founded on January 28, 1948, providing Bulgarian theatre with an academic institution for the first time. Theatre had long occupied a central place in Bulgarian cultural life \u2014 from National Revival performances through national drama companies and modern repertory stages \u2014 but training had never been formalized into a higher-education framework. The new school changed that, creating a professional pipeline for actors, directors, and stage specialists that would shape generations of performers.<\/p>\n<p>Over time the institution evolved into the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts, extending its reach into cinema and television. It remains one of Bulgaria&#8217;s most important creative schools, and its founding on this date marks the moment the performing arts were recognized as a discipline serious enough to require a university of their own.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>January 28, 1998 \u2014 Sofia Metro Opens Its First Line<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The first operational section of Sofia&#8217;s underground railway opened on January 28, 1998, completing a project that had been planned for decades. For a growing capital struggling with traffic, pollution, and expanding suburbs, an underground system promised something surface transport had long failed to deliver: reliable, predictable movement across the city regardless of what was happening on the streets above.<\/p>\n<p>The opening was a practical milestone and a symbolic one \u2014 post-communist Sofia, still navigating economic hardship, had finished something large, complex, and permanent. The metro went on to reshape how residents understood distance within the capital, connecting districts that had previously felt far apart. January 28, 1998 belongs to the longer story of how Sofia became a modern European city.<\/p>\n<p>See what else happened on <a href=\"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria-january-27\/\">January 27<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bronicable.com\/en\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria\/on-this-day-in-bulgaria-january-29\/\">January 29<\/a> in Bulgaria. 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