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On the early, frosty morning of March 3, 46 years ago (in 1978), at exactly 6:00 a.m., above the town of Cracow. The magical melody of the town's singing clock, the song "Ask me where the dawn is", which to this day, almost half a century, continues to sound every morning at dawn over the town, was heard for the first time at 6:00 am, before the first rays of the sun even lit up the town.
The town's clock tower is the only one in the town. The Clock Tower of Kardzhali was built in 1931 and towers over one of the emblematic buildings opposite the Monument to the Liberators in the city centre - the building of the Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Interior. For years the round openings in the tower, where the four dials are now located, were just windows, until in 1977 the then mayor of the city, Eng. Dimitar Milev, with the assistance of Gen. Kostadin Mirchev, the head of the Ministry of the Interior, gave the idea of placing a clock in the tower, which would count the time and be heard from afar (the basis of the idea was a Polish legend, according to which a trumpeter would come out of the 12-cornered dome of the Wabel Cathedral in Krakow and play a melody every hour).
The clock mechanism and the four dials were made at the Institute of Heavy Electronics at the Ministry of Interior in Sofia, and after the clock was installed in the tower, the sound construction and maintenance of the clock was entrusted to local amateur radio designer Pavel Pavlov until 2006, after which it was taken over by Delcho Burmov until today.
The repertoire of the clock includes 17 tunes that sound every round the clock from 6 to 10 p.m. daily, featuring famous patriotic songs, the first at 6 a.m., "They Ask Me Where the Dawn Is," and the last that puts the city to sleep, at 10 p.m., "Where Are You Faithful, O Love of the Nation? ", and also "Great is our soldier", "Arise, arise Balkan hero" and others, and on May 24, every hour sings "Go, people reborn". The melodies were prepared by Yuri and Dobrinka Gerov, lecturers at the Lyuben Karavelov University, and the synthesizer performance was by the famous electronic music composer Simo Lazarov at Radio Sofia. The clock is also equipped with a back-up power supply - a battery that switches on automatically when the power goes out and the melody is played with a 5 second delay. Throughout all these years it has been supported by all the mayors of the town. This is one of the things that is unconditionally supported by all the rulers and residents of the city.
On the back of the tower is an interesting mosaic panel depicting patriotic images from the history of Bulgaria. It was commissioned on the occasion of the 1300th anniversary of the founding of our state. It was made in the period 1981 - 1983. The author of the work is the artist Georgi Trifonov.
Early in the morning and late in the evening, when the noises die down, the sound of the singing clock can be heard not only in the city centre, but also in its outlying districts.
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