Obolonska naberezhna
Riverside promenade along a Dnipro bay, built on raised sand with a hulking unfinished tunnel caisson.
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This guide to Obolonska naberezhna in Kyiv follows the people sent to work on this riverbank in the late nineteen-thirties under a secret Soviet railway order, and the concrete structure they left near Natalka Park. It meets the army engineers and trust labourers behind the job, and the settlements built to house them. Listen near the caisson tower at number fifteen, with the Obolon bay in view.
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