page_title: Blokovi
section_title: Economy and transportation
hierarchical_section_title: Blokovi / Sava Blocks / Economy and transportation
caption_attribution_description: Elementary school "Ratko Mitrovic" in Belgrade/Osnovna škola "Ratko Mitrović" u Beogradu
context_page_description: Blokovi or Novobeogradski blokovi is the semi-formal plural name for a group of urban neighborhoods in Belgrade's municipality of New Belgrade.
  The neighborhood is located in the southeastern urbanized section of the New Belgrade municipality, on the left bank of the Sava river, across from the islands of Ada Međica and Ada Ciganlija. It is bound by the neighborhoods of Bežanija and Bežanijska Kosa from the north, Block 58 from the southeast and the neighborhood of Dr Ivan Ribar from the west.
  When construction of New Belgrade began in 1948, the area designed for the future urban expansion was divided in 72 blocks. Not having any specific name like most other parts of the newly built New Belgrade, over time, this area became colloquially known simply as Blokovi.
  The population of the neighborhood is 79,310, including the neighborhood of Dr Ivan Ribar. But the boundaries of the Blokovi neighborhood are very informal and roughly can be divided into two sections separated by the Yuri Gagarin Street: the north part or, so-called Bežanijski blokovi and the south part or Savski blokovi.
context_section_description: The neighborhood is entirely residential, without any industrial facilities. A commercial sector began to develop alongside the Jurija Gagarina street in the 1990s, and expanded in the 2000s.
  Routes of the public transportation lines pass through all of the streets in the neighborhood: bus lines 45, 68, 73, 76, 81, 82, 89, 94, 95 and 610 and tramway lines 7, 9 and 11.
  Major commercial or social facilities (almost all of them on the Jurija Gagarina street) comprise:
  Block 70-a: Delta-auto car dealership, large Honda car dealership, Hellenic Petroleum gas station and the Omega-beton gravel selling facility on the Sava bank;
  Block 70: several shopping malls including a Chinese market, OMV gas station and large postal facilities (including two separate post offices); it also has a primary school "20. oktobar", kindergarten and its own local community (Serbian: mesna zajednica) of Savski kej.
  Block 44: green market, several shopping malls including one of the first modern super-malls in Belgrade, the Piramida (Serbian for pyramid, because of its shape) and a McDonald's restaurant; it also has two medical clinics.
  Block 45: four shopping malls, including "Enjub"; it also has a primary school Branko Radičević, once the biggest elementary school in the Balkans, which had elite quality education - winning many federal level prizes at competitions in subjects such as mathematics, literature etc., kindergarten, nursery, FK Sava's soccer field and its own local community of Sava.
caption: Blok 38 - around Ratko Mitrović primary school
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