Rybalskyi Peninsula

Rybalskyi Peninsula (Ukrainian: Рибальський півострів,  Рибальський півострів.ogg  translit. Rybal’s’kyi pivostriv; literally: Fisherman's Peninsula) is a peninsula on the Dnieper River (Dnipro), located in the right-bank Podil Raion of the city of Kiev. Although named as an island it is in fact a peninsula and a former spit serving as a left-bank of a former Pochaina River that with time transformed into several oxbow lakes located in Obolon (see Opechen lakes). The peninsula is now a predominantly industrial area.

The peninsula was formed from clay deposits, which served as the left-bank of the Pochaina River. Rybalskyi Peninsula takes its name from the fishermen of Podil who once lived on it. In 1897-1899, the peninsula was raised and strengthened, which would later enable it to house a local shipyard for steamboats (engineered by M.Maksymovych), as well as to form the newly built Kiev Harbour between the peninsula and the Podil riverbank.

In 1926-1930, an electrical power station was constructed in the north-western part of the peninsula (engineered by B. Domanskyi and M. Parusnikov), today Thermal power station-2 (power and heat producing station). During this time an industrial area has developed here. On the banks of the harbor in the Sailors Park a ship-monument to monitor "Zhelyeznyakov" was installed on a pedestal. In 1929 Petrovsky Railway Bridge was finally officially opened after 10 year of abandonment. In the end of the 1930s, the Leninska Kuznia shipbuilding factory was reconstructed.

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