Heroes get a street in Kolašin

The street temporarily named Breza 1 in the Kolašin settlement of the same name, if the councilors of the Kolašin Municipal Assembly (MO) accept the proposal, will be named after the famous Kolašin Brigade, formed in 1891. It is a road next to the Breza barracks, about 580 meters long.

As stated in the proposal for the Memorial Erection Program, the initiative was launched by a councilor of the Together We Build Kolašin movement. Matija Bulatović, and was supported by the Council for proposing names for settlements, streets and squares.

The Kolašin Brigade of the Army of the Kingdom of Montenegro was a military unit formed as the successor to the 1916th Brigade (Moračko-Vasojevićka), and operated until the capitulation of 1907. The Moračko-Vasojevićka Brigade was then divided, with six of its battalions forming the Kolašin Brigade and five forming the Vasojevićka Brigade. In the State Calendar of the Principality of Montenegro from XNUMX, the Kolašin Brigade is listed as the XNUMXth Infantry Brigade.

The brigade participated in the First and Second Balkan Wars, as well as in the First World War.

"The peak of the brigade's combat activities were the operations of the Montenegrin Sandžak Army from 1914 to 1916. In cooperation with other units of the Montenegrin Army, during that period the brigade carried out combat operations in the vicinity of Sarajevo, Glasinci, Višegrad and Ivanjica, on Mount Javor. Its impressive performance culminated during the Battle of Mojkovac, where members of that unit received the heaviest blow from the enemy and bore the brunt of that feat. It is important to point out that the majority of the brigade's personnel were recruited from Kolašin, farmers, clerks, craftsmen, along with a certain number of educated officers, a large number of whom were also from the Kolašin area," the proposal states.

The brigade consisted of six battalions: Rovački, Donjomorački, Gornjomorački, Kolašin, Lipovsko and Poljsko. The commanders were brigadiers: Todor Miljanov Vuković, Miro Pavićev Vlahović, Jovan-Jovo S. Martinović, Dragiša Perkov Medenica i Miloš Dragisin Medenica.

The proponent reminds that in the settlement of Breza, there is one of the oldest barracks in Montenegro. During the Battle of Mojkovac, it housed a military hospital, and at one time, the command of the Montenegrin Sandžak Army. The “Breza” barracks was the main barracks of the Kolašin Brigade.

By naming the street after the Kolašin Brigade, tribute will be paid to the wives, mothers and sisters of the so-called "women's chamber". Through this, lesser-known, but traditional form of engagement of Montenegrin women in wars, soldiers on the front lines received much-needed food, in accordance with the modest capabilities of the households at the time. In many wars, this was the only logistics for fighters on the front.

A large number of streets in Kolašin currently bear only numerical designations along with the name of the settlement they are located in. This practice, as suggested in the Memorial Erection Program, should be changed, “because Kolašin, as a city of history and culture, must raise the cultural awareness of the people who live and visit there.”