page_title: Obolon, Kiev
section_title: Present construction
hierarchical_section_title: Obolon, Kiev / Present construction
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Вид на Оболонь (Киев)
context_page_description: Obolon is a historical locality which includes a residential area, along with an industrial park within the Ukraine's capital Kiev that is located on its northern side, in an eponymous city district - the Obolonskyi District.
  In Ukrainian language the word obolon' means a 'low country near a river' or 'flood-meadows'.
  As Obolon's land regularly used to flood by the Dnieper river there were Kiev city's pasture and haymakings.
context_section_description: Since 1992 the modern housing estate Obolon Lypki was being built between the Dnieper River and Prospect Heroyiv Stalingradu, that includes tower blocks and mansions. It is called on the analogy of the prestigious neighbourhood Lypky in the Pechersk Raion.
caption: Obolon Lypki construction in 2009.
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