Attractions of Poltava region

The Museum of Local Lore in Velyki Sorochyntsi was created in 2008 on the basis of the people's Museum.

Located in a two-story building of the former children's library, to which a carved wooden veranda is attached.

The museum covers the history of the entire Myrhorod region from ancient times to the present day. In particular, tools of the 18th-19th centuries, Ukrainian clothing and household items, a model of a Ukrainian peasant's house of the 19th century, as well as a unique model of the Velyki Sorochyntsi Savior and Transfiguration Church of the 18th century, the family tomb of the Hetman of the Left Bank of Ukraine Danylo Apostol, which is located nearby, are presented.

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.

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.

The Reshetylivka workshop of artistic crafts was founded in 1905 by the Poltava provincial zemstvo as an exemplary and demonstration weaving workshop.

Unique hand-made tapestry carpets, famous Poltava embroidered towels, national clothes with delicate embroidery, etc. were made here.

In Soviet times, the workshop was transformed into an artillery, then into a factory named after Klara Zetkin.

Today it is one of the oldest enterprises of folk arts and crafts in Ukraine. Its products adorn the interiors of many government buildings, embassies of Ukraine, high-class hotels, etc.

Visitors can observe the work of craftsmen, make an individual order or purchase finished products.

The palace and park complex in Berezova Rudka was built in 1838 by landowner Platon Zakrevskyi, a historian and ethnographer.

The palace in neo-baroque style was built according to the project of the architect Yevhen Chervinsky on the site of a burnt wooden house of the 18th century.

The estate consists of an elegant two-story palace with a view terrace and two bay windows, two one-story outbuildings and a large park (45 hectares) with more than 40 species of trees and shrubs.

In the 1840s, the brothers Viktor and Platon Zakrevsky repeatedly hosted the poet and artist Taras Shevchenko. Here he began to write the poem "Caucasus" and also painted portraits of the Zakrevskys. It is believed that Shevchenko was secretly in love with Platon Zakrevskyi's wife Hanna, dedicating to her the poem "If we met again", which became a famous romance.

Since Soviet times, the Zakrevsky estate has housed an agricultural technical school. A monument to Taras Shevchenko has been installed in the central flower bed.

In one of the wings there is a historical and local history museum, which presents photos and documents of the Zakrevsky family, furniture, dishes, books and paintings.

Employees conduct tours of the palace, the park and to the pyramid-tomb of the Zakrevskys.

Chornukhy Zemska School is one of more than 50 schools built by Lokhvytsia zemstvo in Poltava region at the beginning of the 20th century.

The building in the style of Ukrainian Art Nouveau was erected in 1913 according to the project of the architect Opanas Slastion (Slaston), who was also known as an artist, ethnographer and art critic. In his projects, the architect used characteristic techniques of traditional Ukrainian architecture - trapezoidal windows, broken multi-pitched tent roofs with ledges, stylized towers.

The Zemska school in Chornukhy was a three-classroom, with a library and a teacher's apartment. The building is wooden, covered with brick and decorated with ornamental masonry.

Until 1978, the school building was used for its intended purpose. Now it houses the House of Children's and Youth Creativity and the Young Naturalist's Club.