Attractions of Pyriatyn

The Pyriatyn Museum of Local Lore was founded in 1967.

The museum is located in one of the first stone residential buildings of Pyriatyn - the house of one of the local landowners.

The exposition of the museum is placed in six rooms and highlights the history of the region from the most ancient times to the present day. In particular, an ethnographic collection is presented, as well as exhibits that reproduce the life and daily life of the Pyriatyn Cossacks.

The Nativity of Virgin Cathedral in Pyriatyn was built in 1781 by order of the regimental vassal Andriy Ilchenko.

The single-domed church in the Ukrainian Baroque style resembles traditional three-part wooden churches of that time. The walls are decorated with characteristic baroque moldings.

In the 19th century, the temple was rebuilt, but as a result of the restoration carried out in 1980, it returned to its authentic appearance.

Until 1990, the building housed a local history museum. Currently, the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

A thirty-meter Water Tower with an ornamental edging in the upper part is a business card of Pyriatyn.

It was built in 1951 on the Kyiv-Poltava highway next to the "Pyriatyn-1" bus station. In the 1960s, the gas station located next to it became the filming location of the popular film comedy "Queen of the Gas Station" of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko Kyiv Film Studio based on the script of the writer-humorist from Poltava region Petro Lubenskyi, thanks to which the Pyriatyn Tower became famous throughout the country.

Currently not used as intended. On the site of the old gas station, there is now a modern gas station, a cafe, a motel and a roadside bazaar. In the building of the bus station, there is a cafe-museum "Queen of Gas Stations", in which, according to legend, episodes were filmed in the buffet.