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.

On all maps Obolon begins once city's rampart near Podil on the right bank of the Pochaina River [uk], next to the present Taras Shevchenko metro station.

[9] On the Kyiv map of 1902 year created by city's land surveyor Tairov, Obolon is depicted on the left bank of the Pochaina River mouth, where modern Rybalskyi Ostriv suburb is.

All these terrains belonged to Kyiv's administrative division by then - the Ploskyi Uchastok (Плоскій Участокъ, the Flat Area).

Then he suggested that there was a settlement in Obolon, whose inhabitants conducted exchange with antiquity cities of the Northern Black Sea.

Obolon's pasture and haymakings were often an object of arguments between Cossacks, the city magistrate, monasteries and the garrison of Tsardom of Muscovy in Kyiv.

Thus, using the hydraulic fill technology, а sand layer 4–5 metres in height was created above Obolon flood-meadows.

It is locally famous for its honeycomb-like neighborhood planned development with high-rising multi-story apartment complexes (see Public housing).

Since 1992 the modern housing estate Obolon Lypky was being built between the Dnieper River and Prospekt Volodymyra Ivasiuka [uk], that includes tower blocks and mansions.