Omsk
20th February 2011, 22:16
First of all,i would like to say a couple of words about the idea following this thread,i want to tell you a grand story,a tale of a land risen from the ashes!As you all know,Yugoslavia paid a great price in human lives during the war,1,027,000 lives were lost,many died from nazi bullets,some even from allied bombs.The people of Yugoslavia were filled with joy,the nazi invaders were destroyed and the homeland was free,but there was a great problem that had to be solved,the war caused so many death's and horrible crimes,but not only the people were affected,the infrastructure was severely damaged,the towns and villages destroyed by constant fighting and bombing.It was time to rebuild the country,a great task.
There were many work activities,but i am going to cover only one of them,the building of a modern,new,grand city,the building of New Belgrade.
*Today,New Belgrade is a part of Belgrade,although,some people think of it as an individual city.*
Onward to the construction of New Belgrade!
It was on April 11, 1948, three years after World War II ended, that the ground was broken on a huge construction project, which would give birth to what is known today as New Belgrade.
Buildings sprung up one after another and by 1952, New Belgrade was officially a municipality. In 1955 the municipality of Bežanija was annexed to Novi Beograd. It was for years the biggest construction site in Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia and a huge source of pride for country's communist authorities that oversaw the project.
During first three years of construction alone, over 100 thousand workers and engineers from all over the freshly liberated country took part in the building process. Work brigades made up of villagers brought in from rural Serbia provided most of the manual labour. Even high school and university student volunteers took part. It was backbreaking labour that went on day and night. With no notable technological tools to speak of, mixing of concrete and spreading of sand were done by hand with horse carriages only used for extremely heavy lifting.
Mounted police in streets of New Belgrade
Before the actual construction started, the terrain was evenly covered with sand from the Sava and the Danube rivers in an effort to dry out the land and raise it above the reach of flooding and underground streams.
Among the first to go up was the SIV (Savezno izvršno veće) building, which housed the Federal Executive Council. The building has 75,000 square meters of usable space. Built during the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, it was also used during the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia before its dissolution. The building has been renamed Palace Serbia, and now houses some departments of the Serbian government.
First buildings for classic residential purposes were built as pavilions close to the area known as Tošin Bunar (Toša's Well). Studentski Grad (Student City) complex was also built around the same time to meet the residence needs of the growing University of Belgrade student body that came from other parts of Serbia.
The birgades responsible for the construction!
-Sesta makedonska, (6 macedonian) Prva Kamenicka (1 kamenicka) Prva Visegradska (1 visegrad) Prva odzacka,Prva svrljiska,Pohorska,Prva pazinska kotarska,Prva krizevacka kotarska,Osma dalmatinska (8 dalmatian) Prva delnicka,Prva bosansko-samacka,Prva pozeska,Prva djakovacka,Prva jablanicka,Prva novosadska,Prva trstenicka,Prva novogradiska,Druga brcanska (2 brcanska) Prva pakracka,Prva gospicka-kotarska.
Although these names probably don't mean anything to you,i wanted to present just how many of the brigades were involved in the building process,there were roughly 5000 people just in the section i listed.
Along with their comrades from the Warsaw pact countries,the youth of Yugoslavia made glorious building achievements,alas,my horrible english is preventing me from elaborating and i am really sorry that a language barrier exists.
Once again,i would like to say that i am very sorry for my horrible english,i hope some parts of the post are readable.
In the coming days,i will find an adequate translator,and i hope the language barrier will be shattered.
Novi beograd (new) Built by the comrades
I know much about the construction and the socialist situation in Serbia,so if you have any questions...:)
There were many work activities,but i am going to cover only one of them,the building of a modern,new,grand city,the building of New Belgrade.
*Today,New Belgrade is a part of Belgrade,although,some people think of it as an individual city.*
Onward to the construction of New Belgrade!
It was on April 11, 1948, three years after World War II ended, that the ground was broken on a huge construction project, which would give birth to what is known today as New Belgrade.
Buildings sprung up one after another and by 1952, New Belgrade was officially a municipality. In 1955 the municipality of Bežanija was annexed to Novi Beograd. It was for years the biggest construction site in Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia and a huge source of pride for country's communist authorities that oversaw the project.
During first three years of construction alone, over 100 thousand workers and engineers from all over the freshly liberated country took part in the building process. Work brigades made up of villagers brought in from rural Serbia provided most of the manual labour. Even high school and university student volunteers took part. It was backbreaking labour that went on day and night. With no notable technological tools to speak of, mixing of concrete and spreading of sand were done by hand with horse carriages only used for extremely heavy lifting.
Mounted police in streets of New Belgrade
Before the actual construction started, the terrain was evenly covered with sand from the Sava and the Danube rivers in an effort to dry out the land and raise it above the reach of flooding and underground streams.
Among the first to go up was the SIV (Savezno izvršno veće) building, which housed the Federal Executive Council. The building has 75,000 square meters of usable space. Built during the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, it was also used during the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia before its dissolution. The building has been renamed Palace Serbia, and now houses some departments of the Serbian government.
First buildings for classic residential purposes were built as pavilions close to the area known as Tošin Bunar (Toša's Well). Studentski Grad (Student City) complex was also built around the same time to meet the residence needs of the growing University of Belgrade student body that came from other parts of Serbia.
The birgades responsible for the construction!
-Sesta makedonska, (6 macedonian) Prva Kamenicka (1 kamenicka) Prva Visegradska (1 visegrad) Prva odzacka,Prva svrljiska,Pohorska,Prva pazinska kotarska,Prva krizevacka kotarska,Osma dalmatinska (8 dalmatian) Prva delnicka,Prva bosansko-samacka,Prva pozeska,Prva djakovacka,Prva jablanicka,Prva novosadska,Prva trstenicka,Prva novogradiska,Druga brcanska (2 brcanska) Prva pakracka,Prva gospicka-kotarska.
Although these names probably don't mean anything to you,i wanted to present just how many of the brigades were involved in the building process,there were roughly 5000 people just in the section i listed.
Along with their comrades from the Warsaw pact countries,the youth of Yugoslavia made glorious building achievements,alas,my horrible english is preventing me from elaborating and i am really sorry that a language barrier exists.
Once again,i would like to say that i am very sorry for my horrible english,i hope some parts of the post are readable.
In the coming days,i will find an adequate translator,and i hope the language barrier will be shattered.
Novi beograd (new) Built by the comrades
I know much about the construction and the socialist situation in Serbia,so if you have any questions...:)