Attractions of Poltava region

The Literary and Memorial Museum of David Guramishvili tells about the life and work of the great Georgian poet of the 18th century.

The classic of Georgian literature, who lived in Myrhorod for the last 32 years of his life, wrote about contemporary Georgia, Ukraine and, of course, Myrhorod region.

Guramishvili wrote his famous works on Ukrainian soil: many of them merged Georgian and Ukrainian landscapes, alternated poems based on Ukrainian and Russian songs. His poems were widely translated into Russian (Mykola Zabolotsky and others) and Ukrainian (Mykola Bazhan).

Guramishvili died in 1792 and was buried in the Myrhorod Ascension Church. In 1949, a monument was erected on the poet's grave.

The museum presents editions of the poet's works and books about him, Georgian and Ukrainian items of folk life of the past centuries, samples of 18th century weapons, works of fine and decorative and applied art, products of local craftsmen, Georgian souvenirs, etc.

Dibrivka Horse Farm No. 62 in the village of Dibrivka, Myrhorod region, was founded in 1888 by Grand Duke Dmytro Romanov, and since then has been one of the leading stud farms that breed trotting horses.

The Dibrivka type of the Oryol trotter is now considered the standard harness horse both in Ukraine and in Russia. A complex of residential and industrial premises of the 19th century has been preserved. There is a wide area for training and walking horses in nature, it is also possible to learn riding in an indoor arena.

At the Dibrivka Horse Farm, you can buy thoroughbred horses of various ages of trotting and new-Oleksandrian heavy-carrying breeds. In addition, there is a workshop for the production of koumiss on the basis of the plant.

Excursions are conducted. There is a museum.

Ecopark "Kovalivka" near Poltava is one of the largest contact zoos in Ukraine. On an area of 120 hectares, more than 5,000 animals of 530 species are kept here, which can be observed, and some can also be fed and petted.

Many species of predators are represented in the ecopark, including tigers, lynxes, panthers, red wolves, servals, caracals, ocelots and others. Lemurs, monkeys, a family of tapirs, tree porcupines, iguanas, and turtles live in the enclosures. Among the ungulates in the contact part of the zoo, llamas and alpacas receive the most attention from visitors. You can also feed raccoons with special feed purchased on the territory of the park.

The pride of the ecopark "Kovalivka" is the residence of birds, the area of which is about 900 square meters. Here you can see flamingos, cockatoos, cranes and many other birds.

A steam locomotive runs through the territory of the ecopark. There are cozy gazebos where you can have lunch.

The Poltava Educational House named after Mykola Hohol was built in 1901 according to the project of academician Oleksiy Trambytskyi, the St. Petersburg architect of the Directorate of Imperial Theaters.

The theater building is made in the Neo-Renaissance style. Rectangular in plan, the audience hall for 1,100 seats with balconies and boxes, an orchestra pit and a compact stage box resembled in miniature the stage of the famous Milanese theater La Scala.

During the Second World War, the theater was destroyed, in the post-war years it was restored to its original architectural form and adapted to the "Wizoria Kolos" cinema (now a 3D cinema).

Ethnographic collection "Drevo" is a museum of antiquities in the village of Kozubivka in the Poltava region, founded in the old parent's house of Poltava ethnographer Eduard Kutko. Five generations of his family grew up here.

The authentic village house has been restored, its original interiors have been restored, old furniture and household items reflecting the life of a traditional Poltava village are presented.

The museum collection includes more than 2,000 exhibits and items of intangible cultural heritage: embroidery, towels, carpets, paintings, icons, as well as recordings of ancient songs. Most of the exhibits date back to the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

In addition to excursions, the museum offers a master class on making necklaces from Oleksandra Gerasymova, tastings of craft wines from local winemaker Vladyslav Oliinyk, and dinners with traditional Poltava dishes. On the territory there is a garden, a gazebo, a swing.

The Museum of Pottery of Mali Budyshcha "Ethnoselo Рonchariya" has been operating since 2021 as a separate structural unit of the National Museum-Reserve of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishnia.

It is located on the territory of one of the largest pottery centers of the Opishnia pottery district - in the village of Mali Budyshcha, located on the northern outskirts of Opishnia.

In one of the two buildings will be presented local pottery, sketches of pottery paintings, epistolary heritage, photographic documents, photos, wood products and more.

In the second - the interior of the potter's house of the late XIX - early XX centuries is recreated.

The Exaltation of the Cross Monastery in Poltava was founded in 1650 on the banks of the Vorskla River at the expense of Colonel Martyn Pushkar, a Poltava elder and burghers.

The Cathedral of the Ascension of the Cross (1699-1709) is the only seven-headed baroque church in Ukraine that has survived to this day. The four-story belfry (1786) in the late Baroque style is 43 meters high. The complex also includes the single-domed Trinity Church (1750) and the Simeon Church (1887).

During the war with the Swedes, there was a pond of Karl XII.

In the first half of the 20th century, the monastery was closed and ransacked, the premises were used by the NKVD as a prison for minors, then as a boarding school.

The complex of the Exaltation of the Cross Monastery was returned to the church in 1991.

The monument of Cossack glory in Poltava was opened in 1994. Dedicated to the Ukrainian Cossacks who died during the Battle of Poltava.

The authors of the project are sculptor Volodymyr Bilous, artist Viktor Baturin.

A huge Cossack cross with the laconic inscription "To Ukrainian fallen Cossacks" is placed on a massive granite base. At the foot of the symbolic mound - two bunchuks.

The Hradyzk roadside fish market spontaneously formed opposite the bus station of the Hradyzk village on the N-08 Kyiv-Dnipro highway thanks to the developed fishing industry in the Kremenchuk Reservoir.

Fresh, dried, dried and smoked Dnipro fish are sold at the Hradyzk market: zander, bream, catfish, pike and others.

The monument to the grandmother selling seeds "by the glass" was opened in Horishni Plavni in 2006.

The sculpture is placed on the central street of the city, where street trade has been conducted for more than 30 years, despite the efforts of the city authorities and inspection services. Under the stool in the seed seller, there is also a check for regular customers.

Local merchants invented an omen in connection with the opening of the monument: if you sit next to it before sunrise, you will be successful in trade all day long.

The granite rock on the banks of the Dnipro in Kremenchuk is a geological monument of nature and an ancient geodetic mark.

Until the middle of the 20th century, it was used as a rapper - a sign fixing a point on the earth's surface, the height of which in relation to the original leveled surface was determined by leveling.

The rock is an outcrop of gray biotite-plagioclase magmatites 2.5-3 billion years old. It is also called a granite register.

On the rock, which rises 5-6 meters above the river level, there are marks of the highest water levels during floods on the Dnipro since the 18th century. These floods occurred in 1789, 1820, 1845, 1877, 1888, 1889, 1895, 1945.

Since 1970, the granite rapper has been a natural monument of local importance.

The Historical and Local Lore Museum of the city of Hadiach opened in 2012 in a specially built house of original architecture, which is located in the historical part of the city, not far from the place where the Drahomanov estate once stood. Before that, a district historical and local history museum had existed in Hadiach since 1951, but in the 1990s it was closed, and the exposition was disbanded.

The current exhibition has about 2 thousand exhibits that tell about the history of the region, prominent figures whose lives and work are connected with Hadiachchyna. In particular, a large ethnographic collection is presented. The historical section tells about the times of the Hetmanate, about the founding and development of the city from ancient times to the present day.

The room "Berehynias of the Drahomanov Family" is dedicated to Larysa Petrivna and Olha Petrivna Kosach and highlights the history of the Drahomanov-Kosach family. Among the exhibits are original furniture from the living room of the Drahomanov house, Lesya Ukrayinka's own embroidery and the "Egyptian Woman" statuette brought by the writer from Egypt.

Next to the museum is an ethno-courtyard with a stylized village barn, which is used as an ethnographic photo location. In the museum shop you can purchase various souvenirs, as well as craft-made honey and gingerbread cookies.

The exposition of the Dykanka State Historical and Local Lore Museum named after Dmytro Harmash is located in 9 halls and has 8,000 exhibits.

Among them is a handmade chest of Kochubey, decorated with a bizarre pattern, and which served as a treasury in the Trinity Church. Chest in the XVIII century. presented to Judge Kochubey Hetman Ivan Mazepa, but the legend attributes the masterful work on it to the blacksmith Vakula, Hohol's hero from "The Night Before Christmas".

You can see the Polovtsian woman, an old locomotive (steam tractor), Mykola Hohol's posthumous mask. Also presented are valuable finds from Scythian burials, household items, works of art by local masters.

Souvenir products are sold.

Employees of the Museum of Local Lore conduct tours of Dykanka.

The People's Museum of History of the Poltava Polytechnic named after Yuriy Kondratyuk is dedicated to the creation and development of one of the oldest universities in the Poltava region, which was founded in 1930.

The university is located in the former building of the Poltava Institute of Noble Girls.

The exposition of the museum has 10 sections, where more than a thousand exhibits are presented, which acquaint visitors with the stages of development and traditions of the Poltava Polytechnic staff. In particular, you can see a clock from the house of the famous Poltava inventor Yuriy Kondratyuk, whose name is the university.

A separate exposition is occupied by models of the university building, stands with scientific achievements, awards of the former Poltava Civil Engineering Institute, which for a long time was transformed from a single-profile institution of higher education into a classical European university.

The Church of the Ascension of the Lord on the territory of the current residential area of Polovka in Poltava (the former village of Pushkarivka) was built in 1762 at the expense of Poltava colonel Ivan Chernyak as the cathedral church of the Pushkarivsky Ascension Monastery, founded here in 1721.

According to some sources, Motrya Kochubey, the daughter of General Judge Vasyl Kochubey, executed by Hetman Ivan Mazepa, spent the last years of her life here in a monastery (until the 30s of the 20th century, there was a grave of Motrya in the monastery cemetery).

At the beginning of the 19th century, the monastery was closed, and the Ascension Church acquired the status of a parish. All the monastery buildings fell into disrepair and were dismantled. Currently, the Church of the Ascension is an active church of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.