Padina, Belgrade
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Padina ({{lang-sr-Cyrl|Падина}}) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Zvezdara. After one of the central streets, it is also called Vojvoda Vlahović,{{cite news | author = Dejan Aleksić | title = Izborili se za reciklažna ostrva i trotoar, čekaju igralište | trans-title = Residents managed to get recycling island and sidewalks, waiting for the playground | newspaper = Politika | page = 15 | language = Serbian | date = 19 July 2019 | url = http://www.politika.rs/sr/clanak/433987/Izborili-se-za-novi-trotoar-i-reciklazna-ostrva-cekaju-igraliste}} but is also referred to as Braće Jerković II, because it makes urban connection to it.{{cite book | title = Beograd - plan grada | date = 2006 | publisher = M@gic M@p | location = Smedrevska Palanka | isbn = 86-83501-53-1}} The neighborhood is sometimes also referred to as Medaković Padina ({{lang-sr-Cyrl|Медаковић Падина}}, {{Translation|Medaković Slope}}).{{cite news | author = Branka Vasiljević | script-title=sr: Изградња канализације на Медаковић падини | trans-title = Construction of the sewage system in Medaković Padina | newspaper = Politika | page = 15 | language = Serbian | date = 6 May 2020}}
Location
Padina is located in the south-western section of the municipality, right on the border of the municipality of Voždovac, on the northern slope of the {{convert|234|m|ft|adj=mid|-tall|0}} hill of Mokroluško Brdo, thus the name (Serbian padina, slope). It borders the neighborhoods of Medaković III on the north, Braće Jerković on the west while on the south-east, through the street of Cvetanova Ćuprija, it extends to the neighborhood of Veliki Mokri Lug. On the south it makes one urban section with the neighborhood of Braće Jerković II (or Mitrovo Brdo), where it descends into the Kumodraž Field, in the valley of the Kumodraški Potok stream.{{cite book | author = Tamara Marinković-Radošević | title = Beograd - plan i vodič |date = 2007 |publisher = Geokarta | location = Belgrade | isbn = 978-86-459-0006-0}}
Population
Padina mostly belongs to the local community (administrative sub-municipal unit) of Vojvoda Mišić, which was formed within the municipality of Zvezdara before the 1991 census. Prior to that, non-urbanized area belonged to Veliki Mokri Lug.{{cite web | url = https://zis.beograd.gov.rs/ulicebgdout/ulicebgdout.php | title = Ulice u Beogradu| trans-title = Streets in Belgrade | publisher = City of Belgrade Statistics Sector | language = Serbian }}
Local community had a population of 2,127 in 1991, 5,520 in 2002 and 6,998 in 2011.{{cite book | title = Stanovništvo prema migracionim obeležjima – SFRJ, SR i SAP, opštine i mesne zajednice 31.03.1991, tabela 018 | publisher = Savezni zavod za statistiku (txt file)}}{{cite book | title = Popis stanovništva po mesnim zajednicama, Saopštenje 40/2002 | date = 26 July 2002 | publisher = Zavod za informatiku i statistiku grada Beograda}}{{cite book | title = Stanovništvo po opštinama i mesnim zajednicama, Popis 2011 | date = 23 April 2015 | publisher = Grad Beograd – Sektor statistike (xls file)}} This local community includes also parts of the neighborhoods of Medaković 3 and Cvetanova Ćuprija, and in 2020 it was estimated that Zvezdara's part of Padina has 2,500 inhabitants.
However parts of the neighborhood spread outside of the local community, including parts of Veliki Mokri Lug, also in Zvezdara, and Mitrovo Brdo, in the municipality of Voždovac. By 2019, it was estimated that the entire neighborhood had a population of 10,000.
Characteristics
The neighborhood originates from the late 1980s. It is a residential area on the edge of the city, spreading from the central street of the same name, Padina, which has been renamed to Veselina Čajkanovića Street in 2005. Until 2007, mostly individual houses were built, but since then numerous large villas and residential buildings were built on the hills in the outskirts of the neighborhood.{{cite news | author = Marko Radonjić | title = Naselje Vojvode Vlahovića potopljeno, pliva u fekalijama | trans-title = Vojvoda Vlahović neighboroohd flooded, swims in feces | newspaper = Nova.rs | language = sr | date = 18 July 2021 | url = https://nova.rs/vesti/drustvo/naselje-vojvode-vlahovica-potopljeno-pliva-u-fekalijama/}}
The neighborhood was regularly flooded during heavy rains. In 2018, the partial precipitation sewage system was built in the upper section of the neighborhood, but not in the lower parts, which continued to be flooded. Detailed regulatory plan for the settlement was drafted in 2005, but almost nothing was done of planned projects. All projects, including the full sewage system, are stopped due to the ownership issues and illegally built houses and other structures. By 2021, the neighborhood was still expanding along the upper hills.{{cite news | author = Branka Vasiljević | script-title=sr: Поплава у насељу Војвода Влаховић | trans-title = Flood in the Vojvoda Vlahović neighborhood | newspaper = Politika | page = 15 | language = sr | date = 20 July 2021}}
Elementary school should be built in the neighborhood in 2022.
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