Attractions of Poltava region

The Semenivka Local Lore Museum is located in a large two-story building in the center of the urban-type settlement of Semenivka in the Poltava region. It opened in 1962 and introduces visitors to the history and life of the region.

The main exposition of the museum has seven sections: "Svitlytsia", "Ethnography", "Culture, Science, Art", "Nature", "Russian-Ukrainian War", "World War II", "Historical".

The museum's art gallery hosts exhibitions of folk craftsmen and local artists, including Vasyl Artikulny, Ivan Peretiatko and others.

The palace in the romantic style was built in Khoroshky in 1848 by Prince Shcherbatov.

In Soviet times, the building housed a secondary school. In 1966, some episodes of the film comedy "Wedding in Malynivka" were filmed on the territory of the former Shcherbatov estate. In particular, wedding scenes were filmed in the interiors of the palace.

After the school got a new building, Shcherbatov's palace was abandoned for a long time and fell into disrepair. In 2006, it became private property - the palace was bought by a family from Poltava region. The territory around the palace was cleared of debris and a small repair of the right wing was carried out. The new owners gave the object a new name - "Ramaydan Manor", on its basis the implementation of the environmental project "TurboVulyk" is planned. Excursions are conducted.

The Shyshaky Museum of Local Lore was opened in 1967.

There are about 2,000 exhibits in 6 rooms: archival documents, archaeological finds, relics from the Second World War, etc. Permanent expositions tell about the nature of the region and the history of Shyshaky.

Among the most interesting exhibits: a copper cauldron from the Scythian period, a battle mace and ax of the 13th century, a saber of the 14th century, a Cossack pistol, a grain grinder, the first Shyshaky telephone, a radio receiver from the period of the Second World War.

The fair in the village of Velyki Sorochyntsi has been held regularly since the 19th century. The Sorochyntsi Fair (Sorochynsky Yarmarok) became famous thanks to the works of Mykola Hohol.

At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, the village fair was held five times a year. It was closed in the 20s of the 20th century, but revived in 1966. Currently, representatives of various manufacturing enterprises from all corners of Ukraine gather annually at the National Sorochyntsi Fair, offering their products to visitors. In recent years, a folklore and ethnographic section has been equipped, where souvenirs and handicrafts of the best masters of Ukraine are sold.

The fair takes place in the penultimate week of August every year. In the rest of the time, you can explore the field of the Sorochyntsi Fair with models of houses, windmills and other traditional wooden structures.

The ancient Storozhenko tower in Velyka Krucha is the only original building of the Storozhenko family manor, which lived in the village in the 19th century, that has survived.

During the Soviet era, the rest of the manor buildings were destroyed.

Now there is a camping site with a hotel and a restaurant on the territory of the manor. Storozhenka Tower is used as a banquet hall.

The monument "To Swedes from Swedes" near Poltava was erected in 1909 near the Poltava battlefield.

The 6 m high monolithic granite monument was delivered from Sweden. According to the legend, the Russian authorities put forward a demand - there should be no bas-reliefs, sculptures or any other decorations on the monument. The Swedes fulfilled the condition, but every year on the day of the Battle of Poltava early in the morning, when the first rays of the rising sun fall on the granite, the silhouette of a grieving woman appears on it.

On two sides of the monument there are inscriptions in Swedish and Russian: "In memory of the Swedes who died here in 1709, it was built by compatriots in 1909."

The Kotelva People's Museum of Sydir Kovpak was opened in 2007 for the 120th anniversary of the birth of the hero of the partisan movement in his homeland in Kotelva.

Sydir Kovpak became famous as the commander of the legendary partisan unit, which went through the entire Second World War from Putivl in Sumy Region to the Carpathians in western Ukraine.

The Kovpak Museum is located in the school where he once studied (now Kotelva Gymnasium No. 1 named after Sydir Kovpak). The first section of the museum "Kotelva region - homeland of Sydir Kovpak" tells about the history of the region. The second section presents the hero's personal belongings, including clothes and weapons.

Samples of weapons from the Second World War are kept here.

A monument to Taras Bulba, the hero of Mykola Hohol's work of the same name, was erected in Keleberda to mark the 200th anniversary of the writer's birth.

The bronze sculpture depicts the Zaporizhzhian chieftain Bulba sitting on a stone with a pipe in his mouth on a high rocky promontory and looking thoughtfully at the wide expanse of the Dnipro. A horse grazes next to him, and a Cossack cannon stands nearby.

The authors of the sculptural composition are artist Volodymyr Chepelyk and his son, sculptor Oleksiy Chepelyk.

Nearby is the Transfiguration Church (2005) and a monument to the soldiers who died during the crossing of the Dnipro in 1943.

The three-story building of the teachers' seminary in Velyki Sorochyntsi was erected in 1905.

It was the first educational institution that trained teachers in Poltava Region. The church functioned during the seminary. In 1922, the seminary was renamed Velyki Sorochyntsi Pedagogical Courses, then Pedagogical College, Pedagogical School.

Today it is Velyki Sorochyntsi sanatorium-boarding school. There is a museum of spirituality at the school.

The Trinity church was built in Vyshniaky at the expense of representatives of the Obolonsky Cossack family in 1794-1799.

The single-domed, cruciform church is made in the style of classicism.

According to legend, the Trinity Church used to be connected to the nearby Kotlyarevsky manor by an underground passage, which is now covered up.

The Poltava Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after Mykola Hohol is the main and oldest theater stage of the region.

The year of his birth is considered to be 1808, when the "Poltava Free Theater" was opened in the city, which was managed by Ivan Kotlyarevsky from 1818. In 1901, a new building was built for the Poltava theater - the Educational House.

After the Second World War, the damaged building was converted into a Kolos cinema, and in 1958, a new pompous building was built for the Hohol Drama Theater, designed by the architects Oleksiy Krylov and Oleh Malyshenko.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the Hohol Theater was considered one of the best in Ukraine. His production of "Natalka Poltavka" with the participation of People's Artist of the USSR Ivan Kozlovsky was successfully staged in Moscow.

In 2006, a monument to the legendary Marusa Churai, nicknamed the monument to Ukrainian song, was erected in the square next to the theater.

The Museum of Ukrainian Wedding was opened in 2008 in the House of Culture of the village of Velyki Budyshcha near Dykanka.

The exhibition presents wedding dresses of different times, household items, embroidered shirts and towels.

In addition to a tour of the museum, there is an offer to perform a Ukrainian wedding ceremony.

The All-Ukrainian Museum of the Uniform History in Kremenchuk was founded by collector Roman Patsovsky in 2018 with the support of veteran organizations. Since 2020, the exhibition has been housed in the second building of the Kremenchuk Gymnasium No. 27.

The collection of the Uniform Museum includes about 4,000 uniforms of state structures operating on the territory of Ukraine in the 20th-11th centuries. Samples of clothing and equipment of the Soviet Army, Navy and Air Force of the USSR, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the KGB, the SBU, border troops, the prosecutor's office, military educational institutions, the fiscal service, the customs service, the civil sea and river fleets, civil aviation, postal services, Ministry of Emergency Situations, forest protection, executive service, service of execution of punishments, railway transport.

Museum employees conduct thematic tours of the city of Kremenchuk.

A branch of the Uniform History Museum is the Kremenchuk Military History Museum, located in the same building.

The Memorial Museum-Estate of Potter Vasyl Omelianenko was founded in 2025 in the Opishnia house, where he lived, worked and dreamed of creating a museum of his own pottery. All his working tools and devices, household items, and household items are preserved intact here.

Vasyl Omelianenko (1925-2021) was born and lived all his life in Opishnia. He was not a hereditary potter and did not have a professional education, but he mastered the technique of making clay toys on his own and mastered the basic techniques of working on a potter's wheel. From an amateur potter, he grew to an Honored Master of Folk Art of Ukraine, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine, member of the National Union of Masters of Folk Art of Ukraine and the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. His works became the hallmark of Opishnia pottery and glorified Ukrainian folk art in the world.

An exhibition using multimedia technologies has been created in the Vasyl Omelianenko Museum-Estate, which presents traditional Opishnia clay zoomorphic dishes and sculptures of the artist. There is a wide array of written and audiovisual ceramological sources about his life and work: documents, publications, photographs, videos, etc. The personal belongings of the master have become part of the exhibition.

The Memorial Museum-Estate of the Potter Vasyl Omelianenko is part of the National Museum-Reserve of Ukrainian Potteryin Opishnia.

Velyka Bahachka village museum of local lore is located in a one-story building in the center of Velyka Bahachka.

The exposition tells about the history of the region from ancient times to the present, in particular about the founding of the village in Cossack times and the participation of the Cossacks of the Bahachka Hundred in the wars of that time.

In front of the museum is a Soviet divisional cannon D-44 post-war production, and in the yard - a German cannon from the anti-tank self-propelled artillery Marder II.