Botanical Garden Kragujevac

The Kragujevac massacre was the mass murder of between 2,778 and 2,794 mostly Serb men and boys in Kragujevac by German soldiers on 21 October 1941. It occurred in the German-occupied territory of Serbia during World War II, and came as a reprisal for insurgent attacks in the Gornji Milanovac district that resulted in the deaths of ten German soldiers and the wounding of 26 others. The number of hostages to be shot was calculated as a ratio of 100 hostages executed for every German soldier killed and 50 hostages executed for every German soldier wounded, a formula devised by Adolf Hitler with the intent of suppressing anti-Nazi resistance in Eastern Europe. After a punitive operation was conducted in the surrounding villages, during which over 400 males were shot and four villages burned down, another 70 male Jews and communists who had been arrested in Kragujevac were killed. Simultaneously, males between the ages of 16 and 60, including high school students, were assembled by German troops and local collaborators, and the victims were selected from amongst them. The selected males were then marched to fields outside the city, shot with heavy machine guns, and their bodies buried in mass graves. Contemporary German military records indicate that 2,300 hostages were shot. After the war, inflated estimates ranged as high as 7,000 deaths, but German and Serbian scholars have now agreed on the figure of nearly 2,800 killed, including 144 high school students. As well as Serbs, massacre victims included Jews, Romani people, Muslims, Macedonians, Slovenes, and members of other nationalities. Several senior German military officials were tried and convicted for their involvement in the reprisal shootings at the Nuremberg trials and the subsequent Nuremberg trials. The massacre had a profound effect on the course of the war in Yugoslavia. It exacerbated tensions between the two guerrilla movements, the communist-led Partisans and the royalist, Serbian nationalist Chetniks, and convinced Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović that further attacks against the Germans would only result in more Serb civilian deaths. The Germans soon found mass executions of Serbs to be ineffectual and counterproductive, as they tended to drive the population into the arms of insurgents. The ratio of 100 executions for one soldier killed and 50 executions for one soldier wounded was reduced by half in February 1943, and removed altogether later in the year. The massacre is commemorated by the October in Kragujevac Memorial Park and the co-located 21 October Museum, and has been the subject of several poems and feature films. The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually in Serbia as the Day of Remembrance of the Serbian Victims of World War II.

The Historical Archives of Šumadija in Kragujevac (Serbian: Историјски архив Шумадије - Крагујевац) are the primary institution responsible for preservation of archival materials in the Šumadija District located in Kragujevac, Serbia. The archives are primarily covering municipalities of Kragujevac, Rača, Batočina, Knić, Topola, Aranđelovac, and Lapovo. The archives in Kragujevac notably preserve some of the documents from the pre-independence Ottoman Serbia period as well as socialist era business archives of the large industrial factories from the city and the region.

Čika Dača Stadium (Serbian: Стадион Чика Дача) is a multi-use stadium in Kragujevac, Serbia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FK Radnički 1923 and Kragujevac Wild Boars. The stadium was named in memory of Danilo Stojanović, known as Čika Dača, who is considered to be a pioneer of football in Serbia.

October in Kragujevac Memorial Park (Serbian: Spomen-park „Kragujevački oktobar", Спомен-парк „Крагујевачки октобар"), also known as Šumarice Memorial Park (Memorijalni park Šumarice, Меморијални парк Шумарице), is the site near Kragujevac, Serbia of the execution of an estimated 2,800 men and boys of the town by the German occupation forces on October 21, 1941, during World War II (Kragujevac massacre). Among the dead were hundreds of high school students. The 21 October Museum was designed by architect Ivan Antić is located at the site of the massacre. Monuments within the park include the monument to the murdered schoolchildren and their teachers (the "Interrupted Flight" monument) by sculptor Miodrag Živković; the "Monument of pain and defiance" by sculptor Ante Gržetić; the "One hundred for one" monument by Nandor Glid; the "Resistance and Freedom" monument by Gržetić; and the Shoeshiners monument ("Crystal Flower") by architect Nebojša Delja. The complex also contains the Monument to the Slovaks killed during the World War I and the old World War I military cemetery with a Monument to Serbian soldier.In December 2020 an exhibit about the Jasenovac concentration and extermination camp was held.

Aerodrom (Serbian Cyrillic: Аеродром; meaning Airport) was one of five city municipalities which constituted the City of Kragujevac. According to the 2002 census results, the municipality had a population of 36,217 inhabitants. The municipality was formed in May 2002, only to be dissolved in March 2008.

Aquarium Center Kragujevac (Aquarium — Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity and Fishing in inland waters; Serbian: Centar za ribarstvo i konzervaciju biodiverziteta kopnenih voda — Akvarijum) is the first and only public freshwater aquarium in Serbia. At the same time it is the largest aquarium and the only aqua zoo in Serbia. It was founded in 1999. Aquarium is organizational unit of the Institute for Biology and Ecology, at Faculty of Science in Kragujevac, and is located in the premises of this scientific institution. It covers 400 square meters, and its capacity is 60,000 l. It is part of the tourist offer of the city of Kragujevac.

Stanovo (Serbian Cyrillic: Станово) was one of five city municipalities which constituted the City of Kragujevac. According to the 2002 census, 39,252 residents lived in the municipality, while the urban area had 32,965 residents. The municipality was formed in May 2002, only to be dissolved in March 2008.

Stari Grad (Serbian Cyrillic: Стари Град) or Stara Varoš (Serbian Cyrillic: Стара Варош), was one of five city municipalities which constituted the City of Kragujevac. It was the central city municipality and the most populous. The municipality was formed in May 2002, only to be dissolved in March 2008.

The Princely Serbian Theatre (Serbian Cyrillic: Књажевско-српски театар) is the oldest theatre in Central Serbia. It is based in City of Kragujevac, the fourth largest city of Serbia. The theatre was founded in 1835 by Miloš Obrenović, Prince of Serbia. In the time when theatre was founded, Kragujevac was the first capital of the Principality of Serbia.

Joakimfest is an annual international theatre festival held in Kragujevac, Serbia, at the Princely Serbian Theatre in the second week of October each year.

The First Grammar School of Kragujevac (Serbian: Прва крагујевачка гимназија, Prva kragujevačka gimnazija) is a high school located in Kragujevac, Serbia. Founded in 1833, the school is the oldest Serbian high school south of the Sava - Danube line.

Fiat Serbia – formerly "FIAT Automobiles Serbia" (FAS) from 2008 to 2014, then "FCA Serbia" (FCAS) until 2021 – is a Serbian automotive manufacturing company based in Kragujevac, Serbia. It is a joint venture (JV) between the ex-Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), merged into Stellantis in 2021, which owns 67% of the operation, and the Republic of Serbia, which owns the remainder. The company headquarters and assembly plant are located on the former site of Zastava Automobiles (1953–2008) – 70 miles south of Belgrade on the Lepenica river in the country's central Šumadija region. Heavily damaged during the NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia, the factory was completely renovated and modernized, reopening in April 2012 as one of Europe's state of the art car factories.The operation currently has roughly 2,000 employees and works closely with 15 other companies and component suppliers, many located at the adjacent Grosnica Supplier Park — with a combined workforce of roughly 6,000 tied to production at Fiat Serbia. The factory has a daily output of roughly 400 cars.The JV is the largest foreign industrial investment in Serbia and as the country's largest exporter, with exports valued at 1 billion euro ($1.1 billion) in 2016. The plant manufactures the Fiat 500L, a five-door, five passenger, front-engine, front-wheel drive, high-roof B-segment MPV, which Stellantis markets globally in more than 100 countries — with the notable exception of Russia. By early 2018, production surpassed 500,000 units.