Before the settlement was founded, it was a wooded area below what is today Central Cemetery. In the early 19th century it was part of the domain of Marinko Marinković,
obor-knez of
Avala. After him, the wood was called
Marinkova šuma (Marinko's wood) and later, when the village developed, it was also named after him. Marinkova Bara originates from the 1920s and 1930s when the small village was the eastern suburb of Belgrade. One half of the settlement developed in the valley, at the confluence of the
Duboki potok and
Kumodraški potok creeks into the Mokroluški potok. Other half extended into the hills and slopes above, around the modern
Zaplanjska street. In the 1890s, location of the
Belgrade Hippodrome was moved from the area of the modern
Vukov Spomenik neighborhood to Marinkova Bara. At the beginning of the 20th century, the hippodrome was moved to
Banjica. In one of the efforts during the
Interbellum to demolish the shanty town of
Jatagan Mala, city administration demolished the largest part of the settlement in 1939–40, when 450 houses were razed to the ground, and the inhabitants were forcibly resettled to Marinkova Bara. From June 1945 to December 1946, Marinkova Bara was one of 5 administrative neighborhoods within Belgrade's
Raion VI. In November 1968, city announced optimistic plans to resettle the entire Marinkova Bara, classified as an informal settlement at the time, and estimated to have a population of over 20,000. A total of 1,100 new building apartments were planned, which in turn developed into the Medaković neighborhood. Construction was planned to start in the spring of 1968, while the complete resettlement was to be finished by 1971. The sewage connection with the Kumodraž sewage collector was also planned. The city then dropped Marinkova Bara from the 1969 relocation plan and the construction of the new buildings was postponed for later that year. Though the new settlements of
Medaković II and
Medaković III were finished in the 1970s and early 1980s, the majority of Marinkova Bara wasn't demolished or resettled. Mokroluški potok was later conducted underground, into the city's sewage system. It has been conducted below the ground in Marinkova Bara, where the pouring cascade was built to carry the water into the sewage collector, while the bed of the Mokroluški potok, prior to reaching the cascade, has been channeled. The entire complex was renovated in 2009 when the new parallel canal, the grid above the collector, and the protective fence have been built. == Characteristics ==