PHOTOS: ‘I’m a cheerful pupil’: Zagreb’s first day of school nearly half a century ago
Translated from Croatian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- Croatia’s new school year has begun, with about 443,500 pupils returning to classrooms, including roughly 36,300 first-graders.
- The article presents Josip Bistrović’s photographs of Zagreb pupils on their first school day in 1979.
As Croatia’s schools open for a new academic year, photographs from Zagreb offer a look back nearly half a century, to the first day of school in 1979.
The images by Josip Bistrović capture pupils at the beginning of the new school year, preserving the atmosphere of school life in the city at the time.
About 443,500 pupils are returning to classrooms across Croatia this year, including around 36,300 children starting first grade. The photographs invite readers to compare that new beginning with the school days of Zagreb nearly 50 years ago.
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Originally published by Večernji List in Croatian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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