![]() Verbne Lake ( Willow) and the Vovkuvata bay are in the south of the suburb. 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. 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). In 2016 some historians revealed that the river continues to exist and is located in the vicinity of mentioned system of lakes. It borders the Opechen lakes system in the west, which was supposedly created on the place where the legendary Pochaina River used to be. Obolon is isolated from other parts Kyiv city by the Dnieper river with its bays and a group of lakes. Thus the Obolon landscape was significantly changed by people. 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. The suburb is located in the South of the Polesian Lowland, in the northern a part of Kyiv city's area. ![]()
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