All master plans developed during the Soviet era , the waterfront provides an apparatus and out of the city to the Dnieper , but the actual implementation of this task was possible only in the postwar period . Create waterfront in Dnepropetrovsk happened against the background of the revision relationship to the natural environment. The struggle to preserve the purity of air, water and land has become an important task of the state .
Design and construction of Dnepropetrovsk waterfront has been accelerated due to the necessity of reconstruction municipal sewer system. In 1957 , the Institute was Ukrgiprokommunstroy proposed project to lay utilities on the territory of the existing buildings in the coastal part of the city , the narrow streets of the curves , with the necessity of significant drift . The project proved uneconomic and could be hard . A team of specialists and trust Dneprospetsstroya Dneprograzhdanproekta - engineers B. Millman , Levin and architect V. Zuev - offered to lay a single collector sewer, water, gas , cables for different applications and heating duct outside the residential and industrial areas along the coastline.
To protect the coast from the destructive action of groundwater proposed an original solution - to build a dam of metallurgical waste . Proposal to use smelter usefully covered them at the base of the embankment, was very timely and efficient . At a special 10 -kilometer railway line slag delivered for installation in a dam .
Bank of the Dnieper in the central part of the city has a gentle curve . This fact was taken into account in the trace line the promenade . Outer wall, adjacent to the water, lined with traditional granite parapet mounted units of cast-iron grilles mounted between granite blocks . Slatted parapet improves the visibility of the water surface of the river. Wide strip of green space , almost 40 -meter ribbon winds along the waterfront . In the area between the central park and a bridge at the water is 8 m wide terrace , which protects them from the city noise and heat in the hot summer days. Here you can relax under shady umbrellas summer cafe , go fishing and just walk around.