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44-761: Vizelj originates north of Padinska Skela , in the central part of the Pančevački Rit , a former marshland in the southwestern corner of the Banat region. It forms at the Livade locality, and first flows to the west, where in the Puškara region receives the Sefkerin canal from the right. At the Carske Šume locality, also from the right, it receives the Buk canal. The Buk connects Vizelj to Besni Fok , and

88-522: 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. Agricultural PKB high school, with the adjoining students' home, was opened in 1965. А sports and agricultural Lisičji Jarak Airport

132-493: A strange administrative decision, ten times smaller Kovilovo , 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. 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

176-520: A very fertile arable land for the PKB company . While other parts of the country lacked many communal and modern infrastructure, Padinska Skela soon had elementary school, kindergarten, sports clubs, ambulance and cinema. During the period of colonization („The 8th offensive“), it was mostly populated with the settlers from the South Serbia ( Vranje , Surdulica ), Bosnian Krajina and, to the lesser extent, from

220-500: Is Vizelj park with 2,500 seats, and it was first inaugurated in 1958. There is a project under way which started in April 2009 and that will expand the stadium capacity to 8,000 seats, divided in four stands. The club has a sports complex which includes 4 grass fields (the main one plus 3 auxiliary ones), a sports hall, and a restaurant with 300 seats and 16 luxury rooms. The club's reorganization and new infrastructure were possible thanks to

264-453: Is a pumping station which transfers the water from this stream into the Mokri Sebeš. When dug in the 1950s, the canal was 70 metres (230 ft) wide. In time, due to the mud and silt deposits, in some sections it is narrowed to only 7 metres (23 ft). During the normal and high water levels, smaller vessels can enter the channel, but during the low waters it is inaccessible. However, it

308-668: Is crossed by the Outer Northern Tangent  [ sr ] , which is in wider sense a northern section of the Belgrade bypass . Before reaching Borča , it forms a large meander, creating the Veliki Budžak locality. The Vizelj continues to meander in the east-west direction, marking, for the most part, west and southwest border of the urbanized area of Borča , more specifically its neighborhoods of Mali Zbeg , Nova Borča (Centar 3) and Stara Borča . Irgot, section of Stara Borča,

352-586: Is fully situated in the joint meander of Vizelj and Mokri Sebeš , which flows from the left. The Vizelj continues to the south, where it receives the Veliki (Great) canal from the right. Borča expands in this section, and the area is being urbanized in the direction of Crvenka , outer and isolated neighborhood of Borča on the Danube's bank. The canal then crosses the embankment which protects the Pančevački Rit's inland from

396-606: Is located near Padinska Skela, so as a modern BG Sport and Olympic Centre in the nearby Kovilovo, opened in 2005. Near Padinska Skela, 15 km (9.3 mi) along the Zrenjaninski put , there is a large, unfenced hunting ground of Rit. It covers an area of 82.63 km (31.90 sq mi), of which 0.5 km (0.19 sq mi) is a pheasantry . Animals bred in the facility include roe deer , hare , quail , mallard , greylag goose and 13,000 pheasants per year. The Vizelj stream, in its upper course, flows through

440-557: Is reestablished as BSK and has been competing ever since. The club's worst seasons since its founding were between 1990 and 1992, when it dropped from the Belgrade Zone League to First Division Belgrade, and lastly to the Second Division Belgrade, the lowest category of the competition. The arrival of new leadership in the mid-1990s and, as of 2003, the new investments into the club have significantly contributed to

484-612: Is the football club of the Sports Society BSK Borča, BSK stands for Borčanski sportski klub meaning "Sports Society of Borča". BSK Borča football club was founded in April, 1937, and played its first official match on May 6, that same year, against Bačko Petrovo Selo , a 4–2 win. It ceased its activities during the Second World War and was reestablished in 1947. For a short period it changed its name to Hajduk and ceased its activities in 1951. Two years later, in 1953, it

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528-569: Is used for kayaking since 1972, when the first kayak club in Borča was founded. Vizelj is name of the PKB Corporation's pig farm. Also, a new stadium of the FK BSK Borča , built in the vicinity of the river in 2009, is named Vizelj Park . Initial works on the river were done in the second half of the 18th century, during the reign of the empress Maria Theresa , as the area was ruled by Austria at

572-453: The Raška . It was part of the municipality of Borča until May 30, 1952, when it became seat of its own municipality. In 1955 it merged into the municipality of Krnjača which, in turn, became part of the municipality of Palilula in 1965. Originally the settlement grew slowly, as many smaller settlements were scattered all over the Pančevački Rit, growing around the solitary and outer farms. In

616-607: The Second League of FR Yugoslavia in 1998. They played in the second national level until 2002, when, due to the league reorganisation, they ceded their place to FK Vrbas and BSK was relegated to the Serbian League Belgrade where they played until 2006. They were promoted to the Serbian First League in 2006, and immediately in their first two seasons, 2006–07 and 2007–08 , the club headed into play-offs for

660-629: The Serbian SuperLiga . After failing in those two occasions, it will be in their third attempt, after finishing first in the 2008–09 season that they won promotion to the Serbian SuperLiga . As the club stadium did not fulfill the criteria for playing in the SuperLiga, BSK played their first two seasons in the higher tier on OFK Beograd home ground, the Omladinski stadion . In their first season in SuperLiga, BSK finished 12th. Home field of BSK Borča

704-558: The Zrenjaninski put road which connects Belgrade with the town of Zrenjanin , in Vojvodina . It is built right in the middle of the Pančevački Rit , major floodplain between the rivers of Danube and Tamiš . In the early 20th century, Slovak cattle-breeders from the village of Padina were taking land in Pančevački Rit on lease. As the area was a marshland, to reach their land they had to use flatboats (in Serbian skela ), thus giving

748-421: 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 last official census in 2011

792-515: The 1980s, with some constructed in the 2000s. The name means New Settlement in Serbian. Location of the PKB's dairy branch, IMLEK factory for milk production. The name means "Industrial Settlement" in Serbian. Located near the "Rasova" canal. Padinska Skela is still statistically classified as a rural settlement (village). It covers and area of 6,500 hectares. For the Belgraders, Padinska Skela gained

836-547: The Borčanski Dunavac, or, more commonly Jojkićev Dunavac, after Đurica Jojkić , former mayor of Belgrade . During his tenure, this section was channeled and widened in an effort to quicken the drainage of the Pančevački Rit. It empties into the Danube at its 1,168.5 km (726.1 mi). Weekend settlement Mika Alas is located at the confluence. The length of the Vizelj, due to the channeling and artificial connections with

880-409: The Danube and turns to the southeast, parallel to the embankment. In this, final section, the Vizelj makes an administrative border between the towns of Borča and Belgrade, or Belgrade's neighborhood of Krnjača. It also forms the eastern border of the ada Kožara , which is planned, with the surrounding area, as the future, much larger, artificial Čaplja island. This final section is also known as

924-600: The Kišvara canal in the west. From there, the Vizelj generally flows in the north-to-south direction, creating numerous curves and meanders. In this, upper course, it mostly follows the Zrenjanin Road , between the localities of Nove Livade, on the east, and Galina Greda and Zlobatska Bara, on the west. It enters Padinska Skela at the Institute for Agriculture and Forestry, and flows between Skela's neighborhoods of Novo Naselje (on

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968-402: The Vizelj got more and more polluted. It was partially cleaned in 2009. In 2012, sisters Nikolina Moldovan and Olivera Moldovan , who practiced on the Vizelj, petitioned to the mayor Dragan Đilas to do something about the worsening conditions of the river as it is important for the national sport. The city decided to financially support the cleaning, though that is not administratively under

1012-489: The Vizelj. The Glutin has been described as an ecological bomb and the " Sword of Damocles of the Pančevački Rit". The proposed solutions by the ecologists include the incineration of the waste in the furnaces of the cement factory in Beočin . Problem is deepened by the fact that the owner of the lot on which the waste is located is unclear, even in the official cadastre books. Also, all government ministries and agencies claim that

1056-549: The autumn of 2010 a flock of 30 swans landed on the Vizelj and have been coming every years since then, and the number of swans doubled. They became a local attraction. However, the area was plagued by the avian influenza in January 2017, which killed almost 40 swans. Further deaths of dozens of swans from avian influenza were recorded in 2021, 2022, and 2023. As in 2023 the isolated strains included those which are almost 100% fatal for poultry, and can be transferred to mammals and humans,

1100-490: The bones were completely removed by the end of August 2019. Padinska Skela Padinska Skela ( Serbian Cyrillic : Падинска Скела ), or colloquially Padinjak ( Падињак ), is a suburban settlement of Belgrade , the capital of Serbia . It is located in the Belgrade's municipality of Palilula . Padinska Skela is located in the northern, Banat section of the municipality, 15 kilometers north of downtown Belgrade, on

1144-416: The city's jurisdiction. In August–September 2012, the stream was dredged, cleaned and the vegetation was cut. Yearly kayaking regattas have been organized since then. In 2014, the channel was cleaned again but by May 2015 it was again covered in vegetation and turned into the morass. The river was cleaned during the summer of 2015. Since then, locals and members of the kayaк clubs organized and regularly clean

1188-415: The club's expansion into a major sports organization. The club's ascent started in 1993, with the arrival of Dragomir Vasić, the owner of Bami company. He stabilized the club financially and had the club's stadium capacity extended to additional 1.000 seats. The club has gradually started moving up, from First Division Belgrade to Belgrade Zone League and next to Serbian League North before being promoted to

1232-511: The contagion zone was declared around the stream in October 2023, 10 km (6.2 mi) from the outbreak point, and 3 km (1.9 mi) wide. By 2020, the communal services which cut the poplars in the surrounding fields, left the cut trees and debris which clogged the final section, cutting it off from the Danube, and turning Jojkićev Dunavac into the bog. As a result, the water turned black and dying of fish, swans and ducks continued. In 2021,

1276-484: The efforts of Obrad Ćesarević and Dragomir Vasić, who both try to keep the club and its professional team in fine standing. The supporters of BSK Borča are known as Borča Company ( Serbian : Компанија Борча/Kompanija Borča). They were formed by fusion of few smaller groups – Beton Boys , Olosh Boys , LDK C-2 and Shakal Squad . Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. For

1320-507: The end organized the removal of the waste which began in July 2019. It is being transported to the "Proteinka" factory in Sombor for treatment. Due to the distance (Sombor is 150 km (93 mi) away from Belgrade) and the specificities of the waste treatment, only one truck weekly will transport the bones, so it is planned for the process to lasts for several months. The transport was intensified and

1364-469: The name to the area (Padinska Skela = Padina’s Flatboat). Few short streets in the middle of the large marsh existed prior to 1944. They were sparsely inhabited by the Germans, Ruthenians and Czechs. 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

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1408-405: The open. The ground was soaked by the large amount of toxic waste, while the animal remains are scattered by the stray dogs, jackals and foxes. The area is full of fumes and "unbearable stench". The central collector pool for the waste waters from the PKB company is still operational within the complex. PKB's tank trucks poor the waste into the collector, from were it goes directly, unfiltered, into

1452-433: The problem is not under their jurisdiction. The complex covers an area of 330 a (360,000 sq ft) and is 500 m (1,600 ft) away from the urbanized area of Padinska Skela. It is used as the shooting range by the airsoft teams, while the bones are collected for the filming of musical and video clips, etc. Since none of the institutions accepted the responsibility for the problem, city administration in

1496-575: The right), and Tovilište and aviation complex Lisičji Jarak (on the left). Upon exiting Padinska Skela, at the PKB Corporation industrial complex, it receives the stream of Lisičji Potok from the left. From this point it meanders to the west, splitting from the road. It flows through Kovilovo , where it receives the Rasova canal from the right, and continues to the south through the Zbeg region. In this section, it

1540-494: The river was dredged and cleaned from reeds in its upped course, through Padinska Skela. As in this section the river is still not polluted, and majority of settlement has a proper sewage system in this area, this was enough for wildlife, including ducks and swans, to return. Glutin industrial complex is located in the Padinska Skela Industrial Zone, along the promenade on the Vizelj's bank. The state-owned factory

1584-436: The river which caused a massive fish kill . In August 2014, the PKB Corporation apparently discharged large amounts of ammonia into the Vizelj which nearly killed the entire fish population. Despite the pollution, the river is popular among the fishermen, but the recreational fishing is occasionally forbidden on the parts of the course, as it was in 2016 for 600 m (2,000 ft), between river's 3rd and 4th kilometer. In

1628-509: The settlement for 6 kilometres (3.7 mi). In 2021, Vizelj was dredged and cleaned from reeds in part of this section, which resulted in return of wildlife, including ducks and swans. In 2022, construction of the promenade along the Vizelj in Padinska Skela was announced. FK BSK Bor%C4%8Da Fudbalski klub BSK Borča ( Serbian Cyrillic : Фудбалски клуб БСК Борча ) is a Serbian football club from Borča , City of Belgrade . It

1672-433: The stream, including the cleaning of the banks in April 2017. In March 2019, the environmentalists described the Vizelj as "less of a watercourse, more of a sewage watershed". Some cleaning of the canal was conducted after the floods in 2019. In 2022, construction of the promenade along the Vizelj in Padinska Skela was announced. In April 2014, during the repair of the waste water collector, toxic substances were poured into

1716-406: The surrounding channels, has been reported as either 27 km (17 mi) or 31 km (19 mi). The average width of the stream is 50 m (160 ft) and is 1.5 to 2 m (4 ft 11 in to 6 ft 7 in) deep. Jojkićev Dunavac, which makes the final section of the stream, is actually a 6 km (3.7 mi) long canal, cut in the 1950s to drain the soil. In Borča, there

1760-541: The time. In the mid-20th century, the Vizelj was navigable for smaller vessels. The navigable waterway was starting at Vrbovski , and continued until Reva , where it reached the Danube. In the early 1960s, with the digging of the Jojkićev Dunavac, the stream was cut short and got its present form. As the area became rapidly urbanized after the World War II , which was not followed by the adequate communal infrastructure,

1804-578: The vicinity of the neighborhoods. The name, tovilište , is Serbian for cattle feeder . 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. Consists of some 15 five-store buildings built 1974–1978. The name means Middle Settlement in Serbian. The largest neighborhood, with some 50 buildings mostly built in

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1848-447: Was 9,263. Ethnic structure (2002): Serbs 88,21%, Romani 4,04%, Macedonians 0,83%, Yugoslavs 0,55%, ethnic Muslims 0,52%, Gorani 0,50%. The local community of Padinska Skela encompasses two neighboring settlements, Kovilovo and Dunavac. Together they had a combined population of 10,679 in 2011. Some of sub-settlements of Padinska Skela are far away from it, like Glogonjski Rit , Jabučki Rit , Široka Bara or Vrbovski . In

1892-456: Was officially closed. During the inspections of the gradually ruining complex in February 2019 by the ecologists and reporters, over 300 tons of fossilized animal carcasses and bare bones were found. Additionally, mazut , the tanning fluids and various other unidentified chemicals are spilled over within the complex. There is also numerous hardened and crystalized waste, all left to the elements in

1936-414: Was processing dead animals and animal waste, tanning leather and producing animal glue . Due to the bad conditions in the company, workers began to strike in 2005 and the processing of the waste completely stopped. In 2012, the government donated money to the company so that it could process the enlarging amount of the waste, but the strike was only radicalized in 2012 and 2013. The Gluten went bankrupt and

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