Born in Prilep, in the then-Ottoman Empire, he completed the Bulgarian boys' school in Bitola and afterwards studied at the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki. In 1901 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. Solunov was one of the founders of the Macedonian Club in Belgrade in 1902. There he also co-founded the Balkanski Glasnik newspaper,[1] which promoted Macedonian nationalism and separatism with regard to church, language, and autonomy.[2]
^Л. Брашованова-Станчева (1993) Проф. д-р Стоян Брашованов: първият български музиколог, ISBN9548329026, p. 17.
^Blaže Ristovski, Dimitrija Čupovski (1878-1940) i Makedonskoto naučno-literaturno drugarstvo vo Petrograd: prilozi kon proučuvanjeto na makedonsko-ruskite vrski i razvitokot na makedonskata nacionalna misla, Kultura, 1978, str. 165.
^Ristovski, Blaže. Македонскиот клуб во Белград и весникот „Балкански гласник“: свечен собир по повод стогодисхнината од издавањето на весникот „Балкански гласник одржан“ на 11 јули 2002, том 43 от Свечени собири, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2002, pg. 10.