Word Obolon once called lowland, river meadows, which were filled during the flood. Obolon as an area which we now know, began to be built in 1967. As an administrative and territorial unit was established in 1975, and named the Minsk region. Since 2001, bears the name Obolonskyi. This area - an example of placing a housing estate on the alluvial territories of the right bank of the Dnieper. Someone calls Obolon Kiev Brooklyn, someone believes that the new Obolon - is a window into Europe. In the category Lipki in Obolon hits and Obolonska embankment. When you first here it turns out, it seems that he was in a different reality - bridge, lined with scalloped tiles, on the background of the new high-rise building streets Heroes of Stalingrad elegant low-rise buildings, playgrounds, and moms with strollers, and, of course, gorgeous views of the Dnipro. Some Kievans believe that building Obolonska embankment is kitsch, but others have found there own little paradise on earth.