Železnik
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Železnik is an urban neighborhood 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 Belgrade's municipality of Čukarica
Cukarica
Čukarica is an urban neighborhood and one of the 17 municipalities than constitute the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.- Neighbourhoods :...

.

Location

Železnik is located in the central part of the Čukarica municipality, 10 km southwest from the downtown Belgrade . It borders Makiš
Makiš
Makiš is a forest and an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Čukarica....

 to the north (actually, it is built up in the northern part of the Makiš forest), and apart from the urbanized, narrow strip of land alongside the Belgrade-Bar railway and the Vodovodska Street, which makes it a continuous built-up area with Žarkovo to the northeast, it has no urban connection to the other parts of Belgrade.

Several streams flow through the settlement, the creeks of Krušik and Krušički potok and a small river of Čitačka reka.

Zeleznik is one of the most important Urban Belgrade traffic sub - towns .There is Ibarska magistrala on the west and there is Obrenovacki high *-way on the west,in
this way Zeleznik is very fine Connect with all parts of Belgrade.Ibarska Magistrala Lead to a Montenegro and many other also important towns and Citys of Serbia, such as
Kraljevo, Valjevo, Chachak itd.Obrenovachki autoput)or Highway obrenovac Lead to a Sabac, Obrenovac, Loznica.

Zeleznik is Very Good Connect with a center of Belgrade,with car there is Enuff a 15 minuts to get there,and with New Belgrade is Very Good Connect
with 3 Bridges, Ostruznichki most,Gazela and New bridge above ADA.

History and population

Železnik village was founded in the 17th century. Construction of the modern settlement began in 1947, as a worker's settlement for the employees of the newly constructed Ivo Lola Ribar factory. Soon, plans were made for a completely new settlement, a major and heavily industrialized suburb of Belgrade (Železnik, Serbian for Iron City), with a population of 80.000, but that goal is not achieved. Formerly a separate municipality, it was a separate town until 1971, when was administratively annexed to the Belgrade City proper. Population of Železnik:
  • 1921 - 1,987
  • 1961 - 10,727
  • 1971 - 16,912
  • 1981 - 19,731
  • 2002 - 20,851

Železnik Stari

Železnik Stari (Serbian for Železnik Old part) is the oldest part of Železnik. It is located in the present settlement's northwestern part, south of the old cemetery. In 1981 Železnik Stari had a population of 6,766, which was almost 35% of the entire settlement's population.

Novi Železnik

A completely new settlement, constructed in west of the Ivo Lola Ribar factory, in the northwestern corner of the settlement. It stretches from the grade separating junction
Grade separation
Grade separation is the method of aligning a junction of two or more transport axes at different heights so that they will not disrupt the traffic flow on other transit routes when they cross each other. The composition of such transport axes does not have to be uniform; it can consist of a...

 of Ivo Lola Ribar Street on the west, to the stadium of the FC Železnik on the east. Unlike the village, it has straight streets, a clinic, post office, shopping mall, gas station, green market, etc.

Economy

The major facility in the settlement is the Ivo Lola Ribar factory, specialized in production of heavy machines and machine tools. Accordingly, a machinery and metallurgy high school is located in the settlement as well.

Železnik has its own train station
Train station
A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...

 as the railway passes on the western outskirts of the settlement. Also, a large train station and a marshalling yard is located in the nearby Makiš
Makiš
Makiš is a forest and an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Čukarica....

.

Zeleznik has many restaurants and fast food places, a couple of hotels, and Luxury apartments.

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