the National Committee for the Liberation of Yugoslavia. After the formation of the Provisional Government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia he became the minister for Macedonia. However, due to his agitation for an independent and united Macedonia, his stances were deemed nationalist, separatist and anti-Yugoslav, and he was removed from the post. After World War II Between 1946 and 1950 Čučkov was a member of the People's Assembly of Macedonia. From 1946 to 1947 he was the director of the National and University Library "St. Kliment of Ohrid". As a musicologist and ethnologist, in 1947 he founded the Institute for Domestic Artistic Handicrafts "Macedonian Folklore", and from 1948 he became an associate of the newly founded Institute of National History. In 1949, he became the director of the state ensemble for folk songs and dances "Tanec". In the 1950s, Čučkov became the vice president of the Higher Schools Committee. Then in 1954, he became a part-time assistant professor and in 1957 a full-time teacher of Economic Geography at the Faculty of Economics in Skopje. In March 1958, he defended his earlier doctoral dissertation. He is the author of several university and high school textbooks, manuals and research materials in the field of history, geography, economy, folklore, ethnography and education of the SR Macedonia. He died in Skopje. References 1901 births 1967 deaths Yugoslav Partisans Yugoslav communists Macedonian communists