Attractions of Poltava region

The lilac grove on the outskirts of Dykanka was laid out in 1822 by the owner of these lands, Prince Victor Kochubey, on the site of a clay quarry where raw materials for his brick factory were mined.

According to legend, Kochubey created this floral miracle to please his terminally ill daughter Hanna. Lilac seedlings of 40 varieties were brought to Dykanka from different countries of the world.

Now the lilac grove is under the protection of the regional landscape park "Dykanskyi". To date, only 5 varieties of lilac have survived, but due to the large area of the grove (2.5 hectares), it is called the largest in the world.

Every spring, during the flowering of the lilac, Dykanka becomes a place of tourist pilgrimage. Every year in the middle of May, the traditional holiday "Songs of the Lilac Grove" is held.

The first Literary and Memorial Museum of Mykola Hohol in Ukraine was opened in Velyki Sorochyntsi in the restored house of the Sorochyntsi doctor Trokhimovskyi, where the future writer was born in 1809.

The museum was initiated by the artist Amvrosiy Buchma, who in 1929 took part in the filming of the film "Sorochynsky Fair".

During the Second World War the building was destroyed, reconstructed in 1951 without preserving the original layout. The interiors of the 19th century have been restored.

The exposition of the Mykola Hohol Literary and Memorial Museum includes the writer's personal belongings, the first editions of his books, documents, a portrait of Illya Repin's work, and others.

The pond in the center of the city, next to the Assumption Church, was immortalized by Mykola Hohol as the "Myrhorod Puddle" in the story "How Ivan Ivanovych quarreled with Ivan Nykyforovych".

In 2009, to the 200th anniversary of the writer, a monument to Hohol, about three meters high, was opened on the embankment. It became the basis of a sculptural complex dedicated to the heroes of Gogol's works: Ivan Ivanovych with Ivan Nykyforovych, Khlestakov, the blacksmith Vakula and Oksana, the incomparable Solokha, Pot-bellied Patsyuk, the pig.

The People's Museum of the History of the Myrhorod Resort was opened in 1998 on the second floor of a separate building on the territory of the Khorol sanatorium.

The exhibition is dedicated to the history of the health resort and its founder, the zemstvo doctor Ivan Zubkovsky, who was the first to evaluate the healing properties of "Myrhorodska" mineral water back in 1914. This happened after, on the initiative of the city administration, drilling of an artesian well began in Myrhorod to provide the city with tap water. The brackish water from the spring was deemed unsuitable for drinking, but Zubkovsky sent samples for analysis, and it turned out that the chemical properties of the water are similar to the healing mineral waters of the springs of Baden-Baden and Aachen.

The museum exposition presents a model of the first Myrhorod water hospital, which opened in 1917 (the original building with the tower has not been preserved).

The Poltava Art Museum is located in the new building of the Art Gallery (built in 1999; architect Yuriy Oliynyk).

The first art gallery in Poltava was started in 1919 by the Ukrainian archaeologist-scientist Mykhaylo Rudynskyi based on the collection of the itinerant artist Mykola Yaroshenko, which was presented to him. Among the 100 paintings were the works of Ivan Shishkin, Vasyl Polenov, Volodymyr Makovsky, Illya Repin, Vasyl Maksimov and others. The collection included artistic values from the nationalized estates of the Kochubeys (Dykanka), the Galagans (Sokyryntsi), the Kapnists (Obuhivka), and the Repnins (Yahotyn).

The collection of Western European paintings includes unique works by Giovanni Tiepolo, Peter Paul Rubens, Melchior de Hondecuter, Adrian van Ostade, Elizabeth Viget-Lebrun, Carl Peters and others.

For a long time, the Poltava Art Museum was located in the former mansion of the landowner Bolyubash (1912), but due to the state of emergency of the premises in 2000, it was forced to move to the current location.

A resort area in the center of Myrhorod on the Khorol River.

The first water hospitals using the properties of the well-known "Myrhorodska" mineral water began to appear here after 1915 through the efforts of the military doctor Ivan Zubkovsky. He used mineral water to treat diseases of the digestive organs and musculoskeletal system.

Now the best balneological sanatoriums of the city are located on the territory of the resort park, a beach is equipped on the bank of the river. A monument to Ivan Zubkovsky was erected.

The museum of the Myrhorod resort is open.

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 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 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 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.

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 ancestral tomb of the Zakrevsky family in the unusual shape of an Egyptian pyramid was built in Berezova Rudka at the end of the 19th century by the famous lawyer Hnat Zakrevsky, who was in the service of Emperor Oleksandr III, was a member of the Masonic lodge and admired Egyptian culture. According to one version, he was also Russia's ambassador to Egypt.

The chapel-mausoleum built by him over the grave of his ancestors most likely has a secret symbolic meaning. The funeral building combined the classical forms of the Egyptian pyramid and pagan paraphernalia with Orthodox symbols. Thus, the entrance to the chapel was "guarded" by a statue of the goddess Isis brought by Zakrevsky from Egypt, and an Orthodox cross was placed on the portico above the entrance. In the center of the hall was an Orthodox altar with a large stone cross.

Hnat Zakrevsky himself died in 1906 in Egypt, his embalmed body was brought to Berezova Rudka and buried in the mausoleum.

Pyramid in Berezova Rudka is one of the three pyramidal temples in Ukraine. During the Soviet rule, the chapel was desecrated and looted, now the building is in a bad condition.

The luxurious building of the women's diocesan school adorns the center of the city of Lubny.

The building was built in 1907 according to the project of the famous architect, academician of architecture Oleksiy Beketov at the expense of the candle factory of the diocese. The school opened the following year.

Now it is Gymnasium named after Vasyl Barka of the Lubny City Council.

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.