Attractions of Poltava region

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 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.

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 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 Pottery in 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.

The Poltava Literary and Memorial Museum of Volodymyr Korolenko was opened in the house where the writer and his family lived for the last 18 years of his life and where he died in 1921.

The writer's creativity is closely connected with Ukraine, where he was born and spent his childhood, and where he returned towards the end of his life. In Poltava, Korolenko worked on a large autobiographical work, "The History of My Contemporary", which was supposed to summarize everything he had experienced and systematize his philosophical views. The work remained unfinished. The writer died while working on the fourth volume. He was buried on the territory of Peremohy Park near the estate.

The estate itself was restored after the war. The complex includes a building-museum (memorial part), a wing (exhibition hall), a garden. In the reconstructed office of Korolenko, you can see his desk, writing instruments, and a wooden couch.

The house of the merchant Vozdvyzhenskyi (Vozdvyzhenko) in Zinkiv served as a meeting place for the nobility before the Bolshevik coup of 1917.

Vozdvyzhenskyi was the son of a poor burgher from Zinkiv, who traded in tar. Thanks to his entrepreneurial talent, he became a famous industrialist: he built a brick factory, oil mills, and a mill. Later, he began to build high-rise buildings in Zinkiv.

The original building in the style of early romantic modernism with neo-Gothic elements was built in 1897. Now it is a dormitory.