Attractions of Poltava region

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.

The Assumption Cathedral in Hadiach was founded in 1831 at the expense of the merchant Ivan Marulyev.

In 1934, the church was closed by the Bolsheviks, and after the Second World War it was dismantled for building materials.

Restored in 1998 at the former place in its original form. It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Holy Dormition Cathedral in Myrhorod is the oldest religious building in the city.

It was built in 1887 on the site of a wooden temple founded in 1648 by the Cossack colonel Matviy Hladky. The temple in the style of classicism was painted by students of Viktor Vasnetsov.

The altar part was decorated with a unique ceramic iconostasis made at the Myrhorod School of Arts and Crafts (now the Myrhorod Ceramic Technical College) - its fragment is exhibited in the technical College museum.

During Soviet times, the Dormition Church was closed, and it fell into disrepair over the years.

In 1998, the cathedral was reconstructed, a belfry was built, and bells were installed (their ringing is considered therapeutic). Now the interior is decorated with modern paintings by Volodymyr Tkachenko.

The Holy Dormition Cathedral on the Ivanov Hill is the first stone spore in Poltava.

Promoted in 1751-1770 by the initiatives of Colonel Andriy Horlenok at the wooden church, which, since 1695, stood on Vichevy Maidan of Poltava Fortress.

The temple in the style of the Byzantine basilica was designed by the architect Stefan Stabansky. In 1780, two more domes were added to three domes. In 1900, the cathedral underwent one reconstruction, and as a result, it became spacious and bright. On a door with a height of 44 meters, the wall of the door "Kizi-Kermen" is visible from Turkish garmats, for example, of the XVIII century (now at the Local Lore Museum).

In 1934, the Cathedral was demolished by the Bolsheviks, but the door was miraculously preserved. In 1999-2007, at the initiative of the President of Ukraine, the cathedral was reconstructed and turned into the bulk of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Holy Intercession Church in Kamyani Potoky has been known since 1692. Then it was made of wood and soon burned down during a thunderstorm.

Probably, since those times, the church was rebuilt several times, and was finally dismantled only at the beginning of the 20th century. The construction of the brick temple of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin was completed in 1913. At that time, the temple was the largest in the district.

Now the temple is active.

The Church of the Holy Intercession in the village of Plishyvets in the Poltava region is considered one of the most multi-domed in Ukraine.

Before her, there was an ordinary three-headed wooden temple in Plishyvets, but by the end of the 19th century it had completely fallen into disrepair. For help in building a new church, local residents turned to their countryman, the rector of the moscow seminary, Archimandrite Parthenius, who managed to raise funds for the construction of a large stone church.

At the bishop's request, the famous architect Oleksandr Kuznetsov created a project of the church in the Cossack Baroque style - a copy of the Trinity Cathedral in Novomoskovsk. The nine-headed Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin, 45 meters high, is made in the shape of a cross.

The gilded 6-tiered iconostasis about 10 meters high, made in a moscow icon-painting workshop, was lost during the Soviet era, the bell tower was blown up in 1934, but the church itself survived even after it was hit by 7 shells during the Second World War.

Currently, the Holy Intercession Church in Plishyvets belongs to the UOC of the moscow Patriarchate, and restoration is underway.

The Church in honor of the holy martyrs Faith, Hope, Love and their mother Sophia was built in 2002 at the initiative of the city authorities and the women's religious community of Poltava.

The author of the project is the Honored Artist of Ukraine, architect Anatoliy Chornoshchokov. Inside the church, the earthly abode of Jesus Christ is separated to the entire height of the church by a carved iconostasis made by masters of the Lviv company "Syaivo". Some icons were brought from the Pochaiv Lavra.

The five-bath temple in the style of classicism is crowned by a central five-meter cross. Decorative baths contain seven bells. All of them were cast at the Poltava Locomotive Repair Plant. The most powerful of them, weighing 271 kilograms, is called "Poltava".

The 200-year-old Trinity Church, which adorns the center of Kotelva, is an architectural monument.

It was built in 1812 on the site of a burned down wooden temple, founded in the 17th century. The stone church became the fourth after the three wooden ones that were there before it.

The authorship of the church project in the style of classicism is attributed to Kharkiv architect Petro Yaroslavskyi. In 1835, a stone belfry was added. On the eastern side, a brick fence with openwork metal gates and wickets has been preserved. The interiors are decorated with paintings of the 19th century.

The church has a library of spiritual literature, and a Sunday school.

The spectacular Holy Trinity Church in the late Baroque style was built in Dykanka on the site of an old wooden church.

It is located on the shore of a pond near the intersection of Ivana Mazepy Street and Troitska Street.

Construction was carried out in 1780 under the direction of the architect Mykola Lviv at the expense of Pavlo Kochubey of the Poltava Regiment of Bunchuzh. The temple is high, single-domed, with four semi-domes. It has the shape of a cross in plan. The floor was once paved with cast-iron tiles.

Legends closely associate the Trinity Church with the work of Mykola Hohol, who visited it many times. It is believed that this church was painted by the blacksmith Vakula in "The Night before Christmas": "...on the side wall, as you enter the church, Vakula painted a devil in hell, so disgusting that everyone spat when they passed by."

During the Soviet era, the temple was closed and looted, for some time it was used as a warehouse.

In 1993, the Trinity Church was restored and returned to the Orthodox Church.

The Holy Trinity Church in Velyki Budyshcha is the only one preserved in the village from pre-revolutionary times.

It was built in 1819 in the style of classicism. Architectural monument of the 19th century. It is one of the objects of the "Dykansky" Regional Landscape Park.

The Holy Trinity Church in Lubny is located in the building of the former dormitory of the medical school in Nyzhniy Val, although until 1961 it was the central and largest church of the city.

The wooden Trinity Church was first mentioned in 1622. It stood until 1869, when a white stone five-domed temple was erected in place of the old temple, which beautified and ennobled the central square of the city.

In 1960, under the pretext of clearing the site for the construction of a hotel, the Trinity Church was moved to an unsuitable building on the outskirts of the city, and the church in the city center was blown up.

Today, the church has been rebuilt in classical Orthodox forms.

The Family Museum of the Hrebinka Brothers in the village of Maryanivka was opened in 2018 during the cultural festival "Hrebinka Evenings". The exhibition is located in the premises of the Maryanivka village culture center.

It was in Maryanivka, which in the 19th century was called Hlybokyi Yar, that the outstanding Ukrainian writer-biker Yevhen Hrebinka (1812) and his brother, architect Mykola Hrebinka (1819) were born. Only a crypt and an old chestnut tree remained from the Hrebinka family estate, a monument was erected at the burial place of Yevhen Hrebinka.

The museum presents materials about the life and creative path of prominent compatriots. In particular, you can see a reproduction of the portrait of Yevhen Hrebinka, painted by Taras Shevchenko, and other exhibits that tell about Shevchenko's stay in the Hrebinka family.

Hrebinka City Local Lore Museum was opened in 1967. It is located in two rooms on the first floor of the Hrebinka Municipal Culture House in the center of the Hrebinka city.

The exposition consists of five sections: "People's life", "Hrebinka - the city of railway workers", "The combat glory of the Hrebinka region", "Outstanding compatriots", "Hrebinka's Room". Household items of Ukrainian peasants and ancient tools of rural work are widely represented, in particular, an ox harness dating from the 19th century, a horse collar from the beginning of the 20th century, horseshoes, etc. Among the rarities are the textbooks "Grammar of the Latin Language" (1826) and "Basic Fundamentals of Differential Calculus" (1822), special editions of the newspaper "Russkoye Slovo" devoted to the beginning of the First World War.

In 2023, the exhibition "Ukrainian house rich in goodness" was opened in the Hrebinka City Local Lore Museum, the main goal of which is to revive the customs and traditions of the Ukrainian people.

There is a separate museum "Hrebinka's Room", dedicated to the figure of the Ukrainian writer Yevhen Hrebinka, who was born in the village of Maryanivka not far from the city of Hrebinka, where the Family Museum of the Hrebinka Brothers is opened.

The memorial manor of the parents of Hryhoriy Skovoroda, a small-land Cossack Savva Skovoroda and his wife Pelaheya.

In 1722, their son Hryhoriy was born here - a future poet, philosopher and educator. In 1734, he went from here to study at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, from where he went to St. Petersburg, and then on a long journey through European countries. He returned to his homeland in 1750, but did not find his parents alive.

In the center of the manor is a hut under a thatched roof, where items of rural life of the 18th-19th centuries are presented. A large exposition is devoted to the life and work of the philosopher.