| 1. | PROLOGUE |
| 2. | BACKGROUND |
| 3. | SURVIVAL MAP |
| 4. | MAPPED SITES |
| 4.1. | Airport |
| 4.2. | Brewery |
| 4.3. | Bridges |
| 4.4. | Cemeteries |
| 4.5. | City Bakery |
| 4.6. | City Hall (National Library) |
| 4.7. | Dangerous Zones |
| 4.8. | Elektroprivreda Building |
| 4.9. | Gardens |
| 4.10. | Holiday Inn Hotel |
| 4.11. | Hospitals |
| 4.12. | Markale Market |
| 4.13. | Markets |
| 4.14. | Maternity Hospital |
| 4.15. | National Museum |
| 4.16. | National Theater |
| 4.17. | Olympic Museum |
| 4.18. | Oslobođenje Building |
| 4.19. | Parks |
| 4.20. | Post Office |
| 4.21. | Presidency Building |
| 4.22. | Protection |
| 4.23. | Radio-Television Building |
| 4.24. | Railway Station |
| 4.25. | Snipers |
| 4.26. | Tobacco Factory |
| 4.27. | Transportation |
| 4.28. | Tunnel |
| 4.29. | UNPROFOR (the United Nations Protection Forces) |
| 4.30. | Zetra Olympic Hall |
| 5. | PERCEPTIONS |
| 6. | MACRO STORIES |
| 7. | REFERENCES |
The Siege of Sarajevo 1992-96 AHEAD OF FEAR The Art of Survival #2 |
| 1. | PROLOGUE |
| 2. | BACKGROUND |
| 3. | SURVIVAL MAP |
| 4. | MAPPED SITES |
| 4.1. | Airport |
| 4.2. | Brewery |
| 4.3. | Bridges |
| 4.4. | Cemeteries |
| 4.5. | City Bakery |
| 4.6. | City Hall (National Library) |
| 4.7. | Dangerous Zones |
| 4.8. | Elektroprivreda Building |
| 4.9. | Gardens |
| 4.10. | Holiday Inn Hotel |
| 4.11. | Hospitals |
| 4.12. | Markale Market |
| 4.13. | Markets |
| 4.14. | Maternity Hospital |
| 4.15. | National Museum |
| 4.16. | National Theater |
| 4.17. | Olympic Museum |
| 4.18. | Oslobođenje Building |
| 4.19. | Parks |
| 4.20. | Post Office |
| 4.21. | Presidency Building |
| 4.22. | Protection |
| 4.23. | Radio-Television Building |
| 4.24. | Railway Station |
| 4.25. | Snipers |
| 4.26. | Tobacco Factory |
| 4.27. | Transportation |
| 4.28. | Tunnel |
| 4.29. | UNPROFOR (the United Nations Protection Forces) |
| 4.30. | Zetra Olympic Hall |
| 5. | PERCEPTIONS |
| 6. | MACRO STORIES |
| 7. | REFERENCES |
The Siege of Sarajevo 1992-96 AHEAD OF FEAR The Art of Survival #2 |
4.8.
Elektroprivreda Building
"Electricity was a rare guest in the city."
Electricity was a rare guest in the city. The citizens made do with car batteries, candles given by humanitarian organizations, home- made oil lamps which required small amounts of edible oil and bits of shoestring, and with a variety of more or less successful inventions. Some people used battery and the so called “Soros” lamps which required solar energy. Although there was plenty of solar energy the lamps had little capacity and quickly broke down. In the hilly parts of the city people built mini power-generating plants. The “Elektroprivreda” building was on the front line, next to the bridge which borders with the occupied Grbavica district and it was frequently shelled.
FAMA Collection Visual Archives
Sarajevo citizens: In their own words
“In 1994 we came out with some date, which were of course correct, that in 1992 and 1993 Sarajevo was without electrical power during 240 days. Of course, I mentioned those 37-day and 53-day periods without power.”
- Irfan Durmić, Director of the Electric Company
“With the arrival of the UNPROFOR it became safer, it became easier. One could say that if it wasn’t for the UNPROFOR we couldn’t keep on working. However, the UNPROFOR had its procedure: when we applied to go in the field, the procedure lasted 48 hours, besides those gentlemen didn’t work on Sunday, so we had to wait for the first working day and then the same procedure, and so on.”
- Irfan Durmić, Director of the Electric Company
“There were repairs at the beginning and there were repairs throughout the war. We repair something during the day, it gets damaged during the night or we repair something at night it gets destroyed during the day.”
- Sulejman Hodžić, Chief dispatcher of the Electric Company
Video Oral History: The Siege of Sarajevo 1992-96 (© FAMA Collection, 1997-99.)