Obolon
Оболонь | |
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Obolon within the Kyiv city area. | |
Coordinates: 50°30′20″N 30°29′57″E / 50.50556°N 30.49917°E | |
Country | Ukraine |
City | Kyiv |
District | Obolonskyi District |
First mentioned | 1096[1] |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Postal code | 04504, 04205, 04209, 04210, 04211, 04212, 04213, 04214 |
Area code | +380 44 |
Obolon (Ukrainian: Оболонь [oboˈlɔnʲ] ) is a historical locality which includes a residential area (masyv), along with an industrial park within Ukraine's capital Kyiv that is located on its northern side, in an eponymous city district - the Obolonskyi District (until 2001 – Minskyi District).
In Ukrainian language the word obolon' (оболонь) means a 'low country near a river'[2] (floodplain) or 'flood-meadows' (Ukrainian: заплавні луки[3][4]).
As Obolon's land regularly used to flood by the Dnieper river there were Kyiv city's pasture and haymakings.