Падинска Скела Padinska Skela
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Padinska Skela or colloquially Padinjak (Serbian Cyrillic: Падинска Скела or Падињак) is a suburban settlement of Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...

, the capital of Serbia

Serbia

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. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.

Location

Padinska Skela is located in the northern, Banat

Banat

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 section of the municipality, 15 kilometers north of downtown Belgrade, on the Zrenjaninski put road which connects Belgrade with the town of Zrenjanin

Zrenjanin

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, in Vojvodina

Vojvodina

Vojvodina, officially called Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an autonomous province of Serbia. Its capital and largest city is Novi Sad...

. It is built right in the middle of the Pančevački Rit

Pancevacki Rit

Pančevački Rit is a small geographical area in south-western Banat, Serbia. It is situated between the rivers Danube and Tamiš, in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.-Features:...

, major floodplain

Floodplain

A floodplain, or flood plain, is a flat or nearly flat land adjacent a stream or river that stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls and experiences flooding during periods of high discharge...

 between the rivers of Danube

Danube

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 and Tamiš

Tamis

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.

History

The settlement originates from the late 1940s when melioration of Pančevački Rit began. The settlement became important immediately, being in the center of the area which was turned from marshy floodplain into a very fertile arable land for the PKB company. It was part of the municipality of Borča

Borca

Borča is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.-Location:...

 until May 30, 1952, when became seat of its own municipality. In 1955 merged into the municipality of Krnjača

Krnjaca

Krnjača is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.- Location and population :...

 which, in turn, became part of the municipality of Palilula in 1965.

Population

Originally the settlement grew slowly, as many smaller settlements were scattered all over the Pančevački Rit, growing around the solitary and outer farms. In the 1970s however, most of those settlements were administratively merged into the central one, Padinska Skela, even though some of them are kilometers away from it and separated by vast fields. As a result of this administrative measures, the population of Padinska Skela apparently boomed, but almost right away began experiencing depopulation. Population of Padinska Skela according to the official censuses:

• 1971 – 2,412
• 1981 – 10,311
• 1991 – 10,023
• 2002 – 9,836

Ethnic structure (2002): Serbs

Serbs

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 88,21 %, Roma 4,04 %, Macedonians

Macedonians (ethnic group)

The Macedonians also referred to as Macedonian Slavs: "... the term Slavomacedonian was introduced and was accepted by the community itself, which at the time had a much more widespread non-Greek Macedonian ethnic consciousness...

 0,83 %, Yugoslavs

Yugoslavs

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 0,55 %, Muslims

Muslims by nationality

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 0,52%, Gorani

Gorani

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 0,50 %.

Neighborhoods

Some of sub-settlements of Padinska Skela are far away from it, like Glogonjski Rit

Glogonjski Rit

Glogonjski Rit is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.-Location:...

, Jabučki Rit

Jabucki Rit

Jabučki Rit is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.-Location:...

, Široka Bara

Široka Bara

Široka Bara is a bog and also a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. Both are located in Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.- Bog :...

 or Vrbovski

Vrbovski

Vrbovski is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.-Location:...

. In a strange administrative decision, ten times smaller Kovilovo

Kovilovo

Kovilovo is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula.- Location :...

, which almost makes a continuous built-up area with Padinska Skela, is officially classified as a separate settlement. Urban core of Padinska Skela consists of several neighborhoods, like Tovilište, Novo Naselje, Staro Naselje, Srednje Naselje or Industrijsko Naselje.

Tovilište

One of oldest sections of Padinska Skela, consisting of some 30 concrete buildings of very bad quality, built 1950–1970 for first settlers with PKB's farms in the vicinity of the neighborhoods. The name, tovilište, is Serbian for cattle feeder.

Staro Naselje

Older section, consisting of some 30 concrete buildings of very bad quality, built 1950–1970. Mostly old warehouses and depots turned into a residential apartments. Today almost exclusively inhabited by the Roma people. The name means Old Settlement in Serbian.

Srednje Naselje

Consists of some 15 five-store buildings built 1974–1978. The name means Middle Settlement in Serbian.

Novo Naselje

The largest neighborhood, with some 50 buildings mostly built in the 1980s, with some constructed in the 2000s. The name means New Settlement in Serbian.

Industrijsko Naselje

Location of the PKB's dairy branch, IMLEK factory for milk production. The name means "Industrial Settlement in Serbian.

Characteristics

Padinska Skela is still statistically classified as a rural settlement (village).

For the Belgraders, Padinska Skela gained a certain level of notoriety as it is a location of both Special psychiatric hospital Dr Laza Lazarević and one of the major correctional facilities in Serbia, the Padinska Skela prison. Settlements nickname, Padinjak, is used for both institutions in colloquial conversation.

А sports and agricultural Lisičji Jarak Airport

Lisicji Jarak Airport

Belgrade-Lisičji Jarak Airport is located 13 km north of the city of Belgrade, in Kovilovo, Serbia. The airport is mostly used for pilot training and sport parachuting jumps, as well as cropdusting operations.- External links :*...

is located near Padinska Skela, so as a modern BG Sport and Olympic Centre in the nearby Kovilovo, opened in 2005.