Dr Ivan Ribar (Serbian Cyrillic: Др Иван Рибар) is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.
[1] Dr Ivan Ribar is the westernmost neighborhood in the southwestern outskirts of New Belgrade, in the extension of the Yuri Gagarin Street.
It is narrow and rectangular, bordered on the east by Dr Ivan Ribar Street and the neighborhood of Blokovi, and on the west by the mostly uninhabited field of Jasenovo.
[5] When residential block Mileva Marić Ajnštajn was built after 2011, one of the canals was moved further to the west, making neighborhood's western border.
[6] Geographic localities in the western section, along the border with the Surčin municipality are Dragova Greda, Dudova and Gajić, while Jasenova is in the eastern part, where Block 71 developed.
The construction in the area of present neighborhood was originally banned, due to the high noise of the planes taking on and off the nearby Surčin airport.
[7] The roundabout is the starting point of Vinogradska, Vojvođanska, Dr Ivan Ribara and Surčinska streets,[5] so as the 2023 "half-motorway" connection to the Miloš the Great Motorway.
Though officially announced as the social housing project, it turned out later that the apartments were sold with a profit, with falsely reported larger areas, and were built from the inadequate, sub-standard and low-quality materials.
Formed from the parts of the Bežanija Blocks and Sava local communities, it also occupies the Savski Nasip riparian zone.
[18][19] On 31 March 2021 construction of the 7.9 km (4.9 mi) long, direct connection of New Belgrade to the Obrenovac-Surčin Bridge, and further to the Miloš the Great Motorway, began from the roundabout at the crossroads of the Vojvođanska, Vinogradska, Surčinska and Dr Ivana Ribara streets.
The depot will spread on 32 ha (79 acres) south of the Miloš the Great Motorway access road, and west from the Petrac draining canal.
It partially extends into the protected, strict sanitary zone of Belgrade's water extraction in Surčin's locality of Donje Polje,[20] behind the Mileva Marić Ajnštajn section of the neighborhood.
[24] Savski Nasip is an embankment along the Sava's left bank, stretching thought the entire local community's section of the river.
City government decided not to act on the issue of destruction of the embankment, which included intensive cutting of the forest, filling up of the riverbed and construction of hard-material, large, multi-floor structures, digging of the cesspits, illegal use of the road on top of the embankment for cars, trucks and heavy machinery, etc.
Since the mid 1990s, the wide area between the buildings and the embankment became an unofficial landfill covered with waste and garbage and an environmental concern, especially due to frequent fires.