Obolon, Kyiv

Obolon is a historical locality which includes a residential area (masyv), along with an industrial park within Ukraine's capital Kyiv that is located on its northern side, in an eponymous city district - the Obolonskyi District (until 2001 – Minskyi District).

In Ukrainian language the word obolon' (оболонь) means a 'low country near a river' (floodplain) or 'flood-meadows' (Ukrainian: заплавні луки).

As Obolon's land regularly used to flood by the Dnieper river there were Kyiv city's pasture and haymakings.

The suburb is located in the South of the Polesian Lowland, in the northern part of Kyiv 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 Kyiv city by the Dnieper river with its bays and a group of lakes.

It borders the Opechen [uk] lakes system in the west, which was supposedly created on the place where the legendary Pochaina River [uk] 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 (Dog's river mouth) and the Obolon bay (the former names the Starytsa, that can be translated as a former riverbed, or the Bratsky Staryk). There are Redkyne Lake (Ministerka) and the Verbliud (Camel) bay in the north of Obolon, which was created by the size expansion of Lukove Lake (Ulukovo) when soil from it was being taken. Verbne Lake [uk] (Willow) and the Vovkuvata bay are in the south of the suburb.

The closest suburbs to Obolon are Khutir Redky, Minskyi Masyv [uk], Priorka [uk], Petrivka belonging to the Obolonskyi District too and Kurenivka, Rybalskyi Ostriv belonging to the Podilskyi District of Kyiv.