Attractions of Poltava region

The Triumphal Arch in Dykanka is the village's business card, the only surviving civil structure of the Kochubey family estate.

The ceremonial entrance to the estate was decorated with a classic triumphal arch in honor of the arrival in Dykanka of Emperor Oleksandr I, whose close associate was Prince Viktor Kochubey.

Triumphal Arch was built by the architect Luyidzhi Ruska to commemorate the victory over Napoleon in 1812, it was decorated with copper bas-reliefs with battle scenes.

The ancestral tomb of the Zakrevsky family in the unusual shape of an Egyptian pyramid was built in Berezova Rudka at the end of the 19th century by the famous lawyer Hnat Zakrevsky, who was in the service of Emperor Oleksandr III, was a member of the Masonic lodge and admired Egyptian culture. According to one version, he was also Russia's ambassador to Egypt.

The chapel-mausoleum built by him over the grave of his ancestors most likely has a secret symbolic meaning. The funeral building combined the classical forms of the Egyptian pyramid and pagan paraphernalia with Orthodox symbols. Thus, the entrance to the chapel was "guarded" by a statue of the goddess Isis brought by Zakrevsky from Egypt, and an Orthodox cross was placed on the portico above the entrance. In the center of the hall was an Orthodox altar with a large stone cross.

Hnat Zakrevsky himself died in 1906 in Egypt, his embalmed body was brought to Berezova Rudka and buried in the mausoleum.

Pyramid in Berezova Rudka is one of the three pyramidal temples in Ukraine. During the Soviet rule, the chapel was desecrated and looted, now the building is in a bad condition.

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.

Abazivka Village Museum of Local Lore has been located in the waiting room of Abazivka Railway Station since 2012. The exposition is decorated in the form of wide-format banners.

Its sections are devoted to prominent natives of the village, the Soviet period of the regional seed station, as well as the fate of the Abazivka people who took part in the Soviet war in Afghanistan and the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster.

The walls of the station are also decorated with paintings donated by Poltava artist of the sixties Oleksandr Hlushachenko.

The modest church of All Saints of the Ukrainian Land in Lubny is located on the territory of the Children's Park named after Oles Donchenko, opposite the market.

Founded in 1836. Now it belongs to the community of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The first Church of the Annunciation in Lokhvytsia was built in 1740.

After the wooden church burned down, a new stone church was built in the same place in 1800 in the forms of classicism with elements of the Rus style.

During Soviet times, the dome was destroyed, the premises were used as a local history museum.

Today, the Church of the Annunciation is an active church of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The pedagogical-memorial house-museum of the outstanding teacher Anton Semenovych Makarenko was opened in his parents' house in Kremenchuk in 1951.

Anton Makarenko spent 1905-1911 and 1917-1919 in this house. The Kremenchuk Museum became the first museum of a famous teacher in the former USSR.

Currently, the museum exposition has about 34 thousand exhibits, including personal belongings of Anton Makarenko (chess, glasses, antimony, violin), furniture and books of his parents.

The State Museum-Reserve of the outstanding pedagogue and writer Anton Makarenko is located in the village of Kovalivka, Poltava district, on the territory of the former estate of the Trepke family.

It was here from January 1921 to May 1926 that the colony for juvenile offenders and the homeless established by Makarenko was located.

The Makarenko Museum-Reserve was opened by UNESCO on February 25, 1988, on the eve of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the teacher's birth.

The Red and White houses, the outbuilding, and a number of small memorials have been preserved - the entrance arch, gazebo, well, cellar, stairs to the river, pier.

The main hall of the Red House houses the main exposition, which tells about the life of Anton Makarenko and his educational teams, the creative activity of the teacher, the fate of his pupils, the implementation of Makarenko's pedagogical ideas today.

In the White House - a memorial part. Classrooms, a girls' bedroom, a club, workshops, and Anton Makarenko's study, where he wrote the first pages of the Pedagogical Poem, were restored here.

The ancient buildings of the Trepke estate have preserved the decorative stucco of the XIX century.

The Art gallery named after Mariya Bashkyrtseva is the art department of the Dykanka Historical and Local Lore Museum.

The gallery is located in the premises of the former Zemstvo school, built in 1904.

The fund collection of the gallery includes more than 1,000 works. These are mainly the works of amateur local artists, professionals of the second half of the 20th century, and contemporary artists whose creative path is connected with this region.

The greatest interest of visitors is the memorial room of the artist and writer Mariya Bashkyrtseva, where life-size copies of her canvases are presented.

Also on display is a collection of works of art related to the work of the writer Mykola Hohol. In particular, a smooth-embroidered portrait of Hohol by Reshetylivka masters is presented.

The private art salon of the Vasylenko creative family "Museum of Ukrainian Life" in Velyka Krucha is located next to the Kyiv-Poltava highway, near the Brewery complex with a restaurant.

Collector Mykola Vasylenko collected a rich collection of works by folk artists not only of Poltava Region, but also of the whole of Ukraine. In particular, Velyka Krucha ceramics made by local amateur artists Oleksandr Suvorov and Serhiy Syomin are presented: vases, pots, figurines of fairy-tale heroes, park sculpture.

Here you can buy various household items and art products. In particular, dishes with paintings by the local master Ivan Vovchanskyi.

The Church of the Assumption in Vepryk was built in 1821 in the Empire style by the landowner Semen Masyukov.

Four powerful pylons carry arches that support a tall cylindrical drum with a hemispherical dome. The northern and southern facades are decorated with four-column porticoes, and the eastern one with a composite order colonnade.

In the interior, the western part is divided into three naves by composite colonnades. The upper part of the walls and pylons is surrounded by a cornice decorated with stucco rosettes.

An architectural monument of national importance.

The Kremenchuk Museum of the History of Aviation and Cosmonautics was opened in 2014 at the initiative of enthusiast and amateur historian Anatoliy Byshenko, 6 years after the start of work.

The museum is located in the basement of the building, next to which the activists of the public organization "Kremenchuk Museum of the History of Aviation and Cosmonautics" previously broke a square and erected a monument to the fallen pilots from Kremenchuk.

The museum covers events related to the city's history of aviation, but in general, the exposition is built on the theme of World War II. The museum presents military and civilian uniforms of pilots (both modern and from the time of the Soviet Union), documents, photographs, awards, household items, samples of weapons, models of military aircraft, etc.

The Poltava Museum of Aviation and Cosmonautics is dedicated to outstanding events in aerospace science and technology in Ukraine and the world.

The Museum of Aviation and Space Rocketry was founded in Poltava in 1987 on the initiative of the creator of rocket engines, Academician Valentyn Hlushko.

The exhibition is housed in the former building of the first Poltava fire brigade (1810). Personal belongings of cosmonauts, models of spaceships and real units of space vehicles are exhibited in 6 halls.

A significant place in the exposition is given to natives of Poltava region. In particular, the scientific heritage of Yuriy Kondratyuk from Poltava is highlighted.

The funds include about 4,000 exhibits.

A private ethno-museum of beer and moonshine opened in 2018 on the territory of the hotel and restaurant complex "Almaz-Plus" in the village of Abazivka near Poltava.

The exhibition presents original equipment and tools used for brewing and moonshine at different times and in different countries.

The collection of more than 600 exhibits was collected over 7 years by the owner of the complex Vasyl Kozhan. In addition to vats, cauldrons, bottles, mugs, there are also scales, control equipment, players, telephones, old books on the technology of brewing beer and other beverages.

The museum conducts tours and drinks tastings. The complex also includes the Beer House brewery. 

The burial pyramid in Komendantivka, based on the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs, is a 15-meter granite tetrahedron.

Oleksandr Bilevych, an officer of the Russian fleet, who participated in the Russian-Turkish war and fought in the Balkans, being in Egypt in the early 1860s as part of a limited contingent of Russian troops, impressed by the pyramids he saw there, built a pyramid temple in 1864 in to his estate near the village of Komendantivka.

The pyramid was built from granite blocks mined in a local quarry, which were pulled up by wooden chutes with cables. Since the blocks were held together with an expensive lime mortar with the addition of cattle blood and egg whites, construction took 13 years.

The building is three-story. The underground tier consisted of three funeral chambers connected by passages. An Orthodox church with an iconostasis and an altar was located on the first above-ground level. The upper tier served as a belfry. The building was crowned with an Orthodox cross.

In 1877, Bilevych's wife Sofia was buried in the tomb, and in 1916 - the builder of the Komendantivka Pyramid, which was consecrated as the Orthodox Church of Saint Sophia, was buried.

In the middle of the 20th century, the graves of the Bilevichs were destroyed, and a fertilizer warehouse was built in the pyramid.

Currently, the service has been restored by the UOC parish of the Moscow Patriarchate, and the church is being repaired. An extension was made to it, which with its modern appearance violates the compositional integrity of the architectural monument.