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DOLINA RIJEKE BOSNE KROZ ŽELJEZNICKO OKNO
THE VALLEY OF RIVER BOSNA THROUGH THE TRAIN WINDOW

Author(s): Gašper Šmid, Žarko Štrumbl
Subject(s): History, Economic history, Local History / Microhistory, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Arhivističko udruženje Bosne i Hercegovine AUBiH
Keywords: Youth work brigades; post-war reconstruction; shock workers; Šamac – Sarajevo railway; agitation; propaganda; work actions; brigadiers; training of youth; Slovenian youth; archival records;

Summary/Abstract: The authors have tried to show the technical point of view the work of youth brigade at the time of renewal of the war-torn country. This time it was presented to the continued operation of the first great work drive in the construction of the railroad Brcko-Banovici, which the authors have been published in the journal 2013. In this paper first presented the railway network of Bosnia and Herzegovina through time, then described another large work drive Yugoslav youth, the construction of the railway standard gauge Samac-Sarajevo. And that railway 235 km long was expanded to 8 months. Its construction was economically important, it improved the flow of the supply industry and the population in the entire country, the neighboring population was a window to the world. It was built by local youth brigades, along with brigades from most European countries, in which they involved youth on the other side of the Atlantic.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 45
  • Page Range: 263-285
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Bosnian