Čukarička Padina
Чукаричка Падина
Urban neighbourhood
Čukarička Padina is located in Belgrade
Čukarička Padina
Čukarička Padina
Location within Belgrade
Coordinates: 44°46′37″N 20°24′25″E / 44.77694°N 20.40694°E / 44.77694; 20.40694
Country Serbia
Region Belgrade
MunicipalityČukarica
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code+381(0)11
Car platesBG


Čukarička padina (Serbian Cyrillic: Чукаричка Падина) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Čukarica.

Location

Čukarička Padina is located between the neighborhoods of Čukarica to the east, and Makiš to the west. Actually, it is the westernmost part of the Banovo Brdo neighborhood, a strip of land on the slopes of the hill alongside the Savska magistrala road, overlooking the Sava river and Ada Ciganlija, thus the descriptive name, Čukarička Padina, which in Serbian means slope of Čukarica.

Characteristics

The bank of the Sava river where the modern neighborhood is, was a starting point of the raft ferry line which connected two sides of the river. The merchants dug lagums, underground rooms and corridors into the rock slope and used them as a storage areas. The lagums still exist, but the entrances are buried.[1]

The southernmost, triangularly shaped extension of the local community includes the FMP complex. It is located between the streets of Endija Vorhola (on the east) and Milorada Jovanovića (on the west), and the northern slopes of Julino Brdo (on the south). The 3.2 ha (7.9 acres) large complex includes former metal factory FMP and the basketball hall. In March 2023 it was announced that all 18 existing structures within the complex will be demolished, and the commercial-residential project "Victory Gardens", with five large buildings, will be built instead.[2]

The local community had a population of 9,296 in 2011.

Transport

Historical population
YearPop.±%
19814,412—    
19918,369+89.7%
200210,720+28.1%
20119,296−13.3%
Source: [3][4][5][6]

Čukarička Padina is connected with other parts of the city by public transport:

Bus lines:

  • No. 55: Zvezdara - Stari Železnik;
  • No. 56: Zeleni Venac - Petlovo Brdo;
  • No. 56L: Zeleni Venac - Čukarička Padina;
  • No. 87: Čukarička Padina - Banovo Brdo;
  • No. 89: Vidikovac - Novi Beograd (Blok 61);
  • No. 581: Beograd (Lastina stanica) - Lazarevac AS;
  • No. 581A: Beograd (Lastina stanica) - Lazarevac (Dom zdravlja);

Night lines:

  • No. 511: Trg Republike - Sremčica

Čukarička Šuma

In time, a shanty town developed in the woods across the New Obrenovac motorway. It was named Čukarička Šuma (Čukarica Forest).[7] An informal settlement, it is inhabited by the Romanies who work as a waste pickers and mostly use fire to extract the valuable materials from the garbage. Since the early 2010s, as the settlement grew, a large, thick clouds of smoke and bad smell from the burning garbage began cloaking urbanized section of the settlement almost on a daily basis. Frequent gatherings and public protests of the citizens and limited communal efforts to clean, adapt and sanitize the forested area around the shanty town failed to solve the problem despite the fact that the activities which cause it are illegal. Municipality of Čukarica promised it will relocate the informal settlers and build a recycling center which will bring the activities of the settlers into the legal flows. As of March 2018, the shanty town had some 80 houses,[8] and the pollution problems continued into 2019.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Aleksandra Kurteš (17 September 2018). "Тајне подземља Чукарице" [Secrets of Čukarica's underground]. Politika (in Serbian).
  2. ↑ Daliborka Mučibabić (2 March 2023). "Stanovi na mestu bivšeg FMP-a na Čukarici" [Apartments on the location of the former FMP in Čukarica]. Politika (in Serbian). p. 16.
  3. ↑ Osnovni skupovi stanovništva u zemlji – SFRJ, SR i SAP, opštine i mesne zajednice 31.03.1981, tabela 191. Savezni zavod za statistiku (txt file). 1983.
  4. ↑ Stanovništvo prema migracionim obeležjima – SFRJ, SR i SAP, opštine i mesne zajednice 31.03.1991, tabela 018. Savezni zavod za statistiku (txt file).
  5. ↑ Popis stanovništva po mesnim zajednicama, Saopštenje 40/2002, page 4. Zavod za informatiku i statistiku grada Beograda. 26 July 2002.
  6. ↑ Stanovništvo po opštinama i mesnim zajednicama, Popis 2011. Grad Beograd – Sektor statistike (xls file). 23 April 2015.
  7. ↑ Branka Vasiljević (28 April 2020). Вода и храна за неформално насеље на Чукарици [Water and food for informal settlement in Čukarica]. Politika (in Serbian). p. 15.
  8. ↑ Ana Vuković (19 March 2018). "Stanari Čukaričke padine još strahuju za zdravlje" [Inhabitants of Čukarička Padina still fear for their health]. Politika (in Serbian). p. 14.
  9. ↑ Ana Vuković (5 March 2019). "Dim i dalje guši Čukaričku padinu" [Smoke continues to choke Čukarička Padina]. Politika (in Serbian). p. 15.
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