1909年12月7日，尼古拉·瓦普察洛夫生于保加利亚西南的班斯科，父亲曾参加反对奥斯曼土耳其的解放战斗，母亲毕业于保加利亚的美国学院，给小尼古拉播入文学种子，令其日后迅猛发芽。

　　Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov (Bulgarian: Никола Йонков Вапцаров; 7 December 1909 – 23 July 1942) was a Bulgarian poet, communist and revolutionary. Working most of his life as a machinist, he only wrote in his spare time. Despite the fact that he only ever published one poetry book, he is considered one of the most important Bulgarian poets. Because of his underground communist activity against the government of Boris III and the German troops in Bulgaria, Vaptsarov was arrested, tried, sentenced and executed the same night by a firing squad.