Padinska Skela (Serbian Cyrillic: Падинска Скела), or colloquially Padinjak (Падињак), is a suburban settlement of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.

The settlement became important immediately, being in the center of the area which was turned from marshy floodplain into 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 the Raška.

As a result of this administrative measures, the population of Padinska Skela apparently boomed, but almost right away began experiencing depopulation.

In 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.

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 the vicinity of the neighborhoods.

Near Padinska Skela, 15 km (9.3 mi) along the Zrenjaninski put, there is a large, unfenced hunting ground of Rit.

Animals bred in the facility include roe deer, hare, quail, mallard, greylag goose and 13,000 pheasants per year.

In 2021, Vizelj was dredged and cleaned from reeds in part of this section, which resulted in return of wildlife, including ducks and swans.