The suburb is located in the South of the Polesian Lowland, in the northern a part of Kiev city's area. The Dnieper, its bays, small rivers, ponds and lakes around Obolon were used as sources of sand for the height elevation for the further building construction, using the hydraulic fill technology. Thus the Obolon landscape was significantly changed by people. Obolon is isolated from other parts Kiev city by the Dnieper river with its bays and a group of lakes. It borders the lakes system in the west, which was supposedly created on the place where the legendary used to be. In 2016 some historians revealed that the river continues to exist and is located in the vicinity of mentioned system of lakes. The east boundary of the suburb is the Dnieper with its bays: the Sobache hyrlo and the Obolon bay. There are Redkyne Lake and the Verbliud bay in the north of Obolon, which was created by the size expansion of Lukove Lake when soil from it was being taken. and the Vovkuvata bay are in the south of the suburb. The closest suburbs to Obolon are Redkyn Khutir,,, Petrivka belonging to the Obolon Raion too and Kurenivka, Rybalsky Ostriv belonging to the Podil Raion of Kiev. By roads, the suburb is located:
The Ukrainian historian drew a series of Kiev historical maps, since the Princess Olga time, the 20th century up to the 19th century. On all maps map Obolon begins once city's rampart near Podil on the right bank of the, next to the present Taras Shevchenko metro station. On the Kiev map of 1902 year created by city's land surveyor Tairov, Obolon is depicted on the left bank of the Pochaina River mouth, where modern Rybalsky Ostriv suburb is. There were city's pasture and haymakings marked on the place of the present-day Obolon suburb. All these terrains belonged to Kiev's administrative division by then - the Plosky Uchastok.
History
Early time
Around the chronicles, nowadays it is the lakes system, were found the Mesolithic and Zarubintsy culturearchaeological sites. Remains of settlements the 1th BC - 2nd AD centuries and the 6th - 7th centuries were found in Obolon. The first who drew special attention to Obolon was the Ukrainian historian Volodymyr Antonovych, who got 200 bronze Roman coins there in 1876, which were dated the second half of 3rd - the first half of 4th centuries. Then he suggested that there was a settlement in Obolon, whose inhabitants conducted exchange with antiquity cities of the Northern Black Sea. Further Obolon was explored in particular by Turvont Kybalchych, Mykola Biliashivsky,, A. A. Piantkovsky, and. Before the Kievan Rus epoch it was a territory of Eastern Polans. The Velesworship place was there at the pagan times. At the time of Kievan Rus and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania the land belonged to the Principality of Kiev. Obolon often became a place of battles with nomads and during princely feuds. After the Union of Lublin this territory was a part of the Kiev Voivodeship of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. At the time of the Cossack Hetmanate, Obolon belonged to the. Obolon's pasture and haymakings were often an object of arguments between Cossacks, the city magistrate, monasteries and the garrison of Tsardom of Muscovy in Kiev. During the Russo-Turkish Wars, palisades were being built there. In 1911 the Kurenivka civil aerodrome was opened on Obolon fields.
Soviet era
As a result of the Ukrainian–Soviet War and the Polish–Soviet WarKiev City and its suburbs was finally captured by the Red Army. In 1967 the development plan of Kiev was approved, according to which residential areas would be constructed on wetlands on both sides of the Dnieper. Thus, using the hydraulic fill technology, а sand layer 4–5 metres in height was created above Obolon flood-meadows. In 1972 - 1980 the biggest housing estate of tower blocks in Kiev was erected in Obolon. In 1975 a new administrative unit - Minsky Raion was formed. It included the Obolon housing estate. Since the Kiev administrative subdivision reform in 2001 Obolon suburb has belonged to the eponymous Obolon Raion, which was created on the Minsky Raion basis. In 1972 - 1980 there is the biggest Kiev's housing estate of 9 and 16 storey tower blocks erected in Obolon. The estate architects were,,, M. I. Kulchynsky, Z. G. Klebnikova and I. G. Verymovska. It is locally famous for its honeycomb-like neighborhood planned development with high-rising multi-story apartment complexes. In 1980 in Obolon was officially opened the Obolon beer brewing company commemorated to the 1980 Summer Olympics.
Present construction
Since 1992 the modern housing estate Obolon Lypki was being built between the Dnieper River and, that includes tower blocks and mansions. It is called on the analogy of the prestigious neighbourhood Lypky in the Pechersk Raion.
