As of today, Hrvatska ulica no longer exists

Goran Vesić, Photo: Goran Vesić

The commission also took the initiative to change the name of Hrvatska ulica in Palilula to Glinskih žrtava Street in 1941, said the chairman of that commission, Andrea Radulović, and announced the city administration.

The initiative to erect monuments to the three mayors, in places that affected their life and work in the capital, was presented by Deputy Mayor Goran Vesić.

He proposed that a monument to Branko Pesic be erected in front of the Zemun city municipality building on Masarikov square, indicating that at the time Pesic was mayor, a woman from Belgrade, the Mostar circuit, the road through Belgrade , the Gazela bridge, the Terazije tunnel, events like “Fest” and “Bitef”.

For the construction of a monument to Vlado Ilić, a space has been proposed between George Washington Street, Despot Stefan Boulevard, Vojvode Dobrnjac Street, Venizelosova Street and Knez Miletina Street.

The initiative establishes that during Ilić’s mandate, the construction of the Temple of Saint Sava, the suspension bridge over the Sava, on whose pillars the Branko Bridge stands today, the “King Peter’s Bridge” on the Danube, where they are the Pancevac Bridge, the Belgrade Fair and Zoo.

According to the proposal, the monument to Miloš Savčić will be erected on the corner of Boulevard kneza Aleksandra Karađorđevića i Vojvode Putnika.

He was mayor for a short time, from 1929 to 1930, but in the year of his mandate he solved a large number of problems for the belgraders, according to the initiative.

He was also Minister of Construction of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and between the two world wars he became one of the greatest building magnates in Europe, and in Kosovo and Metohija he opened one of the most modern European mines “Trepac”.

The initiative to change the name of Hrvatska ulica in Palilula was presented by the citizens of Kotež, and claims that the massacre in the church in Glina on July 29, 1941, when the Ustasha killed more than 1,700 people, the local population Serbia, it was one of the biggest crimes. that the desire to preserve the memory of the innocent population that suffers with the new name.