Jarun () is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of Zagreb, Croatia. It was named after Lake Jarun, formed by the Sava, now located on the southern edge of the neighborhood.
Lake
The lake is the location of the Jarun sports and leisure center, where people can row, paddle, sail,
Surfing, swim, jog, bike,
roller skate, and
skateboard. Around the lake are many nightclubs and cafes such as Aquarius. Jarun Lake is currently a home of
INmusic festival.
Also, around the lake Jarun there is a "Walk of fame" with the pictures and biography information of great athletes of Croatian sport.
Neighborhood
The area covered by the local city council Jarun is 398.06 hectares, with 12,149 inhabitants (2011).
The development of Jarun began at the end of the 1970s when it was merely a village, with the building of apartment blocks. Development increased in 1987 due to the building of the sports and leisure center (for the Universiade in Zagreb). It is currently a middle-class neighborhood.
The borders of Jarun are Horvaćanska Street to the north with Staglišće, Hrvatski Sokol Street with Vrbani to the west, Vrapčak Creek with Gredice to the east, and the Sava River to the south. Jarun, in the wider sense, also includes the neighborhoods of Staglišće and Gredice.
History
On the night of 10–11 March 2022, Jarun a unmanned aerial vehicle operated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine crashed into Jarun, leaving behind a large crater. It flew through Hungarian
airspace at an altitude of and a speed of .
While the cause has yet to be confirmed as of 2024, it was speculated that the vehicle may have been being operated out of Yarun', which was confused with the graphically identical (in Cyrillic) Jarun, following which the wrong return coordinates were inputted.
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