The newest city in Balkans

[Dušan]

This is thread about new and developing town in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The city of Еast Sarajevo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isto%C4%8Dno_Sarajevo) was created due to war circumstances, 25 years ago, when over one hundred thousand Serb refugees, residents of Sarajevo, had to leave their homes that belonged to the Muslim-Croat federation. Some of them started new lives and found their new homes just a few kilometers away, in Republika Srpska, building their completely new city.

https://i.imgur.com/yazMoCi.jpg

25 years ago this was empty land and meadow.

https://i.imgur.com/X65N1wi.png



Nowadays it looks like this:

https://i.imgur.com/hC3WN4w.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/j9afNSR.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/u0AzBiz.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ofFNNYV.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/2OObsxE.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/f5akpId.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/t8ENOEq.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/AHYPyg8.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/OzIRKc4.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/XIcQzch.jpg


Area with houses:

https://i.imgur.com/sqX0oyD.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/XOi7jdd.jpg


By night:

https://i.imgur.com/P0XoHlX.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/HJUKApR.jpg



The creation of this city is a great success of Serbs, knowing all the war, expulsions, sanctions, poverty and other aggravating circumstances that my people went through.

I am so proud on East Sarajevo Serbs. :thumb001:

[Dušan]

This town tend to have new tree alleys all across the streets. And lot of parks :)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7fCR0wrhEo



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjEzMpQZSVo



New street recently opened


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uilgR3R-lBY

[Dušan]

Few new photos

https://i.imgur.com/XQwmlFQ.png

https://i.imgur.com/H2BjjBX.png


Place where lake will be constructed:

https://i.imgur.com/tWSJQYw.png



Churches:

https://i.imgur.com/qqaqnsp.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/wM5N7LF.jpg

[Dušan]

Very nice development :)

https://i.imgur.com/UqIICQj.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/uT10Uho.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/pqYbEO8.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/u6lQo8O.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/3KTOSqX.jpg

[RenaRyuguu]

It looks cool. But they need to raise the average wage in those countries otherwise everyone will leave in a 100 years.

[Faklon]

Looks impressive, probably the most well planned city in the peninsula.

[Dušan]

Looks impressive, probably the most well planned city in the peninsula.

I would say it looks impresive, despite it was not planned at all before some 30 years ago.
As a result of war, Serb refugees from Sarajevo needed new homes. They could go somewhere - to Serbia, or to western countries, but some of them choosed to build a new city few kilometers away of their own homes. They had a vision.
I am so proud on Sarajevo Serbs. They suffered a lot from Muslim extremists during last war, they deserve to live happy in their new city, that is becoming more European and modern than Sarajevo proper.

[Varda]

I would say it looks impresive, despite it was not planned at all before some 30 years ago.
As a result of war, Serb refugees from Sarajevo needed new homes. They could go somewhere - to Serbia, or to western countries, but some of them choosed to build a new city few kilometers away of their own homes. They had a vision.
I am so proud on Sarajevo Serbs. They suffered a lot from Muslim extremists during last war, they deserve to live happy in their new city, that is becoming more European and modern than Sarajevo proper.

Republika Srpska was better solution for Serbian refugees from Sarajevo and other parts of federacija than Serbia and especially than western countries. Serbian vast majority in RS must be preserved, it's our primary national interest. Except in East Sarajevo and Pale many Serbian refugees from Sarajevo settled in Bijeljina. Some of them of them ended up in Serbia and unfortunately in diaspora.

Trebinje as center of Serbian part of Herzegovina also has a future. Airport in Trebinje should be completed next year https://www.exyuaviation.com/2020/08/bosnias-trebinje-airport-targets-2022.html
Except airport, few other large projects are currently underway in Trebinje. Also in the last about 10 years Russians have begun to buy land in Trebinje and surrounding villages. Med climate and the Serbian environment suit them, plus Dubrovnik and Bay of Kotor are close. Bay of Kotor has a Serbian majority and Russians are always welcome guests there, regardless of the official policy of state Montenegro which is anti-Russian.
In Trebinje settled many Serbian refugees from federal part of Herzegovina (Mostar, Stolac, Čapljina etc) like many Serbs of Sarajevo settled in East Sarajevo, Pale and Bijeljina.


https://youtu.be/6-rHESQ-DR8


https://youtu.be/4MHJP2w6z5Y

[Dušan]

Republika Srpska was better solution for Serbian refugees from Sarajevo and other parts of federacija than Serbia and especially than western countries. Serbian vast majority in RS must be preserved, it's our primary national interest. Except in East Sarajevo and Pale many Serbian refugees from Sarajevo settled in Bijeljina. Some of them of them ended up in Serbia and unfortunately in diaspora.



Ethnic Serb majority of Republika Srpska of course will be preserved, since +90% among newborns in each generations are ethnic Serbs.
Building a completly new city in Republika Srpska is outsanding all expectatins, knowing for weak economy that Srpska had after the war. Indeed impresive project.

[Dušan]

This is pre-war ethnic map of Sarajevo and surroundings:

https://i.imgur.com/M2HjJ8z.png

red - Serbs
green - Muslims
blue - Croats

Purple line is border between Republika Srpska and Muslim-Croat Federation.

Black lines are borders of municipalities.

Yellow area is place where new city East Sarajevo is developing.




As you can see, most of surrounding settlements around Sarajevo were mostly Serb, with some 30% in city itself.

[Varda]

East Sarajevo is one of the rare cities/towns in former Yugoslavia which grows. There are many young married couples and children in East Sarajevo. Except Serbian refugees from Sarajevo who are the basis of population in East Sarajevo also settled Serbs from rural areas of East Bosnia (Republika Srpska) and Serbian part of Herzegovina.
In East Sarajevo there is solid number of small and medium-sized firms. Banja Luka in this segment is quite bellow East Sarajevo. Also, some people from East Sarajevo are employed in federal (Muslim) Sarajevo and in tourism on Jahorina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahorina

Jahorina
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Jahorina1.jpg/1280px-Jahorina1.jpg
https://cms.filiptravel.rs/tvimages/HotelImage/1/2951/0_L.jpg
https://www.peggy-jahorina.ba/images/our-story-01.jpg
http://odmoruprirodi.rs/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/jahorina.jpg
https://www.oc-jahorina.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/oc-jahorina-ski-mapa7.jpg

[Varda]

East Sarajevo municipality.


https://youtu.be/rgVjM_5orKo

[Dušan]

Fresh video uploaded few weeks ago.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toLSVyUvfx0

30 years ago empty meadow, nowadays modern Serbian city. :food-smiley-004:

[Dušan]

The most beautiful thing about new city East Sarajevo is that there are no Muslims and Croats. It is pure, ethnic 99% Serbian. :)

[Nausevar]

I don't like the architecture at all. It's a modern city built with car users in mind, with no walkable streets and ugly modernist buildings. Communistic in spirit, even if some churches were built here and there.
Most cities in the balkans have few beautiful old buildings built in a particular style, that's why they will never be popular touristic attractions.

[Dušan]

East Sarajevo town hall

https://i.imgur.com/jIV7DXf.jpg


Square "Serbia" in East Sarajevo

https://i.imgur.com/sN1HGTK.jpg

[Vlatko Vukovic]

The most beautiful thing about new city East Sarajevo is that there are no Muslims and Croats. It is pure, ethnic 99% Serbian. :)

That's the reason why it is a village, unlike this beautiful capital of BiH ;)

https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/2/4-sarajevo-bez-dan.jpg

[Faklon]

Nice stuff, it shows maybe that if you unite and push Balkaners, they can do impressive things.

[Vlatko Vukovic]

Nice stuff, it shows maybe that if you unite and push Balkaners, they can do impressive things.

Not exactly. Serbs have destroyed many of these constructions, and Bosniaks mainly renovated it with some foreign investitions too for bigger constructions.

[Dušan]

That's the reason why it is a village, unlike this beautiful capital of BiH ;)


Beautiful?
The only beautiful building in Sarajevo is Orthodox Church.

Now when there are no more Serbs in Sarajevo proper, it is returning to be semi-Asiatic shithole, as it was until 1945. when Tito modernized Muslims.



https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kFSx2QKiOrU/maxresdefault.jpg

https://i.redd.it/0118tfkn7t161.jpg

[Jankec]

It is only partially true. There were several cities before war (Pale, Sokolac etc.) and they have been connected into a new city. There are many new buildings, roads, municipalities, but it's not from nothing.

[Dušan]

It is only partially true. There were several cities before war (Pale, Sokolac etc.) and they have been connected into a new city. There are many new buildings, roads, municipalities, but it's not from nothing.

Everything from photos and videos posted here is built in last 25 years, in the meadow.
It is Istočno Novo Sarajevo municipality, not Pale or Sokolac.

And by the way, town of Pale almost doubled in population size in last 3 decades, from 7000 to 13000 inhabitants.

[Dušan]

The flag of Republika Srpska and all Serbs was unfurled in East Sarajevo on the Day of the Republic - 9th January, which, according to officially available data, is the longest flag in Europe, it was announced from this local community.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0jrFkRtOiI

The flag was developed in Dečanska Street, and is 527 meters long and 4.6 meters wide.



https://www.rtrs.tv/vijesti/vijest.php?id=459433



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvHRg7yYrM8

[Dušan]

And by the way, town of Pale almost doubled in population size in last 3 decades, from 7000 to 13000 inhabitants.

Beautiful new Orthodox church in Pale.

Town of Pale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale,_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina) was capital of Republika Srpska during the war.



https://i.imgur.com/j08yFRp.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/IJmpkka.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/7jHbvwd.png

[Italicus]

Wow! That's some beautiful and unique architecture right there, this is what all modern buildings should look like. Do you know the style by any chance?

[Dušan]

https://i.imgur.com/Awao4Qs.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/LqUqQTg.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/I9spjUA.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Hxo21gR.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/KpL5GyF.jpg

[Dušan]

Model of planned Orthodox cathedral in central square Serbia.

https://i.imgur.com/1w2zVXX.png

[Dušan]

double

[Dušan]

Place where lake will be constructed:

https://i.imgur.com/tWSJQYw.png



Fast development :thumb001:

https://i.imgur.com/lMFiWQU.png

[Cristiano viejo]

And can Bosnians cross to that city, and viceversa? are there walls, a border or something?

[Dušan]

And can Bosnians cross to that city, and viceversa? are there walls, a border or something?

There is no wall, but everyone there know what is Serb part, and what is Bosniaks Muslims part.
From stories I heard, Bosniaks avoid East Sarajevo.

[Agapa]

There is no wall, but everyone there know what is Serb part, and what is Bosniaks Muslims part.
From stories I heard, Bosniaks avoid East Sarajevo.

Да ли живиш у Источном Сараеву?

[Dušan]

Да ли живиш у Источном Сараеву?

Не живим у Источном Сарајеву, али волим да пратим изградњу и развој овог новог града. Сваки успех Републике Српске ме радује.

[Agapa]

Не живим у Источном Сарајеву, али волим да пратим изградњу и развој овог новог града. Сваки успех Републике Српске ме радује.

Никад нисам тамо била. Али видим да град је прелеп. Да ли знаш да ли има тамо посла?
Ја живим у Русији од детињства, већ и српски прилично сам заборавила, али пратим шта се дешава у РС.

[Dušan]

Никад нисам тамо била. Али видим да град је прелеп. Да ли знаш да ли има тамо посла?
Ја живим у Русији од детињства, већ и српски прилично сам заборавила, али пратим шта се дешава у РС.

Мислим да посла има, пошто се толико нових зграда гради. Велика је потражња за становима у Источном Сарајеву.

Велики поздрав за братску Русију из Србије. :)

[Varda]

Никад нисам тамо била. Али видим да град је прелеп. Да ли знаш да ли има тамо посла?
Ја живим у Русији од детињства, већ и српски прилично сам заборавила, али пратим шта се дешава у РС.


East Sarajevo is one of the rare cities/towns in former Yugoslavia which grows. There are many young married couples and children in East Sarajevo. Except Serbian refugees from Sarajevo who are the basis of population in East Sarajevo also settled Serbs from rural areas of East Bosnia (Republika Srpska) and Serbian part of Herzegovina.
In East Sarajevo there is solid number of small and medium-sized firms. Banja Luka in this segment is quite bellow East Sarajevo. Also, some people from East Sarajevo are employed in federal (Muslim) Sarajevo and in tourism on Jahorina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahorina

Jahorina
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Jahorina1.jpg/1280px-Jahorina1.jpg
https://cms.filiptravel.rs/tvimages/HotelImage/1/2951/0_L.jpg
https://www.peggy-jahorina.ba/images/our-story-01.jpg
http://odmoruprirodi.rs/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/jahorina.jpg
https://www.oc-jahorina.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/oc-jahorina-ski-mapa7.jpg

[Agapa]

Хвала :)))

[Agapa]

Мислим да посла има, пошто се толико нових зграда гради. Велика је потражња за становима у Источном Сарајеву.

Велики поздрав за братску Русију из Србије. :)
Хвала.
Поздрав за Србију:). Руси заиста воле Србе :).

[Jankec]

And can Bosnians cross to that city, and viceversa? are there walls, a border or something?

Of course they can, as well as Serbs. A lot of Serbs from there work in Sarajevo.

[Jankec]

Руси заиста воле Србе :).

A Ruskinje Hrvate:)

[Agapa]

A Ruskinje Hrvate:)
Ne u tom smislu XDDD. Volimo sve, i Srbe, i Hrvate. Ne volimo samo ustase.

[Agapa]

A Ruskinje Hrvate:)
Ne u tom smislu XDDD. Volimo sve, i Srbe, i Hrvate. Ne volimo samo ustase.

[Agapa]

)))

[Dušan]

A recent development. :)

https://i.imgur.com/oFTnHvq.png

https://i.imgur.com/uFxfUNN.png

https://i.imgur.com/noBiejB.png

[Dušan]

Place where lake will be constructed:

https://i.imgur.com/tWSJQYw.png




Fast development :thumb001:

https://i.imgur.com/lMFiWQU.png



Lake nowadays:

https://i.imgur.com/2bfHuAq.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/9dn3GVw.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/vpaIHjx.jpg

https://unaworld.com/storage/images/2023/04/jezero_istocno%20sarajevo%20una%203-64480d156f623.webp

https://i.imgur.com/PcfMPMG.jpg

[Zevoos]

Having the chance to build a new neighborhood from scratch and all you get is neocommieblocks.