This large sandy island formed sometime in the result of many reclamation Dnieper and Desna flows. After the overlap Chertoroyskogo bed he became a peninsula, and today is between two residential districts of Kyiv, Obolon and Troyeshchyna, bounded on the west the Dnieper, in the north - Desna, in the east - Desenka (Chertoroy), and in the south - the Moscow bridge. Has long been settled by fishermen on it. And the island's name is associated with a legend that it is here that smashed their tents epic heroes - Nikitich, Alyosha Popovich and Ilya of Murom - before being brought before the clear eyes of Prince Vladimir. And, they say, this island is named after the famous hero, that he freed from evil spirits located on the tract it Chertoroy. In 1972, it laid the park of Friendship of Peoples, which is part of the stretches along the Dnieper in Kiev park.