It is covered with granite rocks to the west which gradually turns into a sandy spit in the east of the island.

According to archeological finds, in the Paleolithic period (7—3 thousand Anno Domini) human settlements appear on the island.

[3] The first monument to the ukrainian political, scientific and artistical figure Taras Shevchenko (1814 – 1861) on the island appeared in the mid-1920s (the exact date has been lost).

[4] The main alley on the island in the 1950s was completed by a monument to Joseph Stalin in the middle of a large flowerbed.

[4] This 1949 monument was then reinstalled in the Shevchenko neighborhood in Dnipro's Samarskyi District where it was located until October 2007, when it was destroyed.