Georgi Kostov Sugarev was a Bulgarian revolutionary, vojvoda of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization.[1][2] In the Republic of Macedonia he is considered an ethnic Macedonian.
Sugarev was born in 1876 in Bitola, then in the Ottoman Empire, today in the Republic of Macedonia. Sugarev completed fourth grade of Bitola Exarhate School. Afterwards he became a Bulgarian teacher firstly in Demir Hisar, then in Kichevo, and finally in Bitola. However he left the school system and decided to join the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation. In 1901 he became a chetnik of Nikola Rusinski. With the assistance of the vojvoda Rusinski, they operated together trough the regions of Demir Hisar, Smilevo and Bitola. The same year he was elected a member of the Bitola District Revolutionary Committee of the IMRO, and in February 1902 he went underground. Sugarev was a delegate to the Smilevo Congress of the Bitola revolutionary district of IMRO. At the beginning of the Ilinden uprising he was Bitola revolutionary district leader, participating in several battles. Together with the vojvodas Hristo Uzunov he supported Dame Gruev to restore the organization after the suppression of the uprising. Sugarev participate in the Prilep Congress of the IMRO in 1904. He started also anti-Serb campaign in the late summer of 1905. Thеse actions he coordinated with the IMRO leaders Pancho Konstantinov and Ivan Naumov Alyabaka. Later Sugarev left for Bitola to arrange joint actions against the pro-Serbian bands in the Bitola and Skopje revolutionary districts. By this activity Sugarev was helped by the Bulgarian vojvodas Petar Yurukov and Petar Radev.
In March 1906 Georgi Sugarev heads to Mariovo to counter the intensifying Greek bands. Because of betrayal, of March 23, 1906 the cheta was surrounded near the village of Paralevo of numerous Turkish forces and after a fierce battle was completely destroyed.[3].