Attractions of Poltava region

The Local Lore Museum in the village of Vovchyk in the Poltava region is named after its founder, local teacher and local historian Ivan Sayenko. It was on his initiative that the museum began to form back in 1948 on the basis of a local lore club at the Vovchyk school.

Since 1980, the Vovchyk Local Lore Museum has been located in ten halls of a specially built two-story building. The exhibition tells about the nature of the Poltava region, the foundation and ancient past of the village, its development in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the period of collectivization and the Holodomor, the events of World War II, etc.

In the art gallery you can see works of painting by Ukrainian artists and examples of folk art: embroidery, ceramics, artistic weaving.

The monument to Ivan Zubkovsky, the founder of the Myrhorod resort, was opened in 1998 for the 150th anniversary of his birth.

Doctor and public figure Ivan Zubkovsky researched and proved the healing value of Myrhorod mineral water, thanks to which in 1917 the first water hospital with 5 baths was opened in Myrhorod.

The monument to the work of the architect Serhiy Ruskykh and the artist Mykola Tsys is a bas-relief with the inscription: "To the founder of the Myrhorod resort, the zemstvo doctor, a public figure from grateful countrymen."

Ivanova Hill (Ivanova Hora) is the historical core of Poltava, the best scenic spot in the city. More than 11 centuries ago, the historic city of Ltava stood here on a high hill above the Vorskla River.

Later, an earthen Poltava fortress was built, which in the 18th century held back the advance of the Swedes for three months, until the army of Petro I approached. The wooden Podil tower (one of 15) was reconstructed, next to which it is planned to restore the Sentinel bastion of the Poltava fortress.

The panorama of the Vorskla Valley with the Exaltation of the Cross Monastery on the nearby hill opens from the White Arbor.

In 2006, a monument to the Poltava halushka, celebrated by writers, was erected near the Ivan Kotlyarevskyi museum and the Lileya restaurant.

The Kalaidyntsi Local Lore Museum is a branch of the Ivan Sayenko Local Lore Museum of the village of Vovchyk. The institution was opened in 2002 on the initiative of local residents. The museum operates at the Kalaidyntsi Lyceum.

The first exhibition was the "Folklore Room". A whole creative group of teachers and students worked on its arrangement. Many exhibits were donated to the museum by residents of the village of Kalaidyntsi. In particular, a large collection of authentic embroidered towels is presented.

Other expositions: "From ancient times", "Bells of national memory", "Hall of military glory", "History of the school", "Spiritual treasures of our land". In 2017, an exposition dedicated to the defenders of Ukraine was opened.

The Kaplyntsivskyi Bridge over the Udai River on the southern edge of the village of Kaplyntsi in the Poltava region is considered the longest wooden bridge in Ukraine. Its length, according to various estimates, reaches from 230 to 240 meters (some sources indicate a length of 356 meters, presumably taking into account the earth dam).

According to legend, the first wooden bridge was built across the river at the end of the 19th century. In 1933-1934, a new crossing was built in Kaplyntsi to lay a direct road to Pyriatyn.

The bridge stands on oak piles, has 46 spans. About 600 oak logs were used for construction. On top of the longitudinal beams, oak beams were laid crosswise, which were sheathed with oak boards. Initially, the bridge had a wooden railing.

Now the Kaplyntsivskyi Bridge is part of the "Zaplavnyi Udai" eco-tourist route, laid through the picturesque surroundings of the city of Pyriatyn and nearby villages on the territory of the Pyriatynskyi National Nature Park. It is a popular tourist location due to its beautiful scenery and the opportunity to take interesting photos.

The Karlivka Museum of History and Local Lore was founded in 1967 and has been housed in a historic building in the center of Karlivka since 2001, opposite the central square.

The museum has 6,000 exhibits. The exposition in 14 halls tells about the nature and history of Karlivka Region from the distant past to the present.

The permanent exhibition of works of the honored master of national creativity, the founder of studio of fine arts of the Karlivka Gymnasium Ihor Nikolayevsky is presented.

The first folk museum of local lore was organized in Khorol by ethnographer Volodymyr Biryukov back in 1917, but in the 1930s it was closed by the Soviet authorities.

The current exposition has been operating since 1995 and is housed in a historical building of the beginning of the 20th century, which is an architectural monument of local importance.

The nature department presents a diorama, stuffed animals, and geological samples.

The archaeological collection includes ancient weapons, ceramics, and stone tools.

In the department of ethnography, the interior of a village house is recreated, folk costumes and household items are exhibited.

A diorama of the "Khorol Yama" death camp is on display.

A branch of the Khorol Museum of Local Lore is the Novoavramivka Local Lore Museum.

The Kobeliky Museum of Literature and Art is named after its founder, a local teacher, local historian, artist and writer Oleksiy Kulyk. It was thanks to his active work that the museum opened in 1982 (a memorial plaque was installed).

The museum is located in a separate building built in 1913. It presents about 2,000 exhibits.

The exposition tells about outstanding creative personalities of Kobeliaky region: bandura player Tamara Hrytsenko, poet Pavlo Usenko, writers Pavlo Zahrebelnyi and Oles Honchar, poetess Lyudmyla Ovdienko, artists Dmytro Levytskyi and Anatoliy Petrytskyi, and many other representatives of the creative and scientific intelligentsia.

A special place in the exposition is reserved for representatives of the Georgian community of Kobeliaky and the surrounding area.

Also in the museum you can learn about the origin of the name of the city, hear legends about its foundation, and get acquainted with historical facts about the development of the Kobeliaky.

Kochubey oaks in Dykanka are a monument of nature and history.

Three oaks growing in a row are the remains of a large oak avenue that decorated the entrance to the Kochubey manor on the ancient Poltava road, laid through the Mykolaivsky forest. Another oak tree stands alone, near the forest department. The age of the trees is about 800 years, the diameter of the trunk is 1.5-1.8 meters, the height is 20-22 meters.

According to legend, the oaks were planted by the Zaporizhzhia General Clerk Vasyl Kochubey and Colonel Ivan Iskra on Kochubey's birthday. Another legend tells that under one of these oaks, young Motrya Kochubey, the daughter of the general clerk, met her elderly lover, Hetman Ivan Mazepa.

Kochubey oaks were sung by the poet Pushkin in the poem "Poltava".

Kotelva Museum of Local Lore is temporarily housed in the building of the House of Culture in the center of Kotelva.

An ethnography room has been set up here for the re-exposition.

The museum exposition presents archeological finds from the Scythian settlement of Bilsk, which is located near Kotelva. This is not only mass household products, especially utensils, but also works of art of ancient and local Scythian masters (gold ring, mirror, cruciform plates, etc.). In particular, the museum presents items from the unique "Blazhkiv treasure" of the Slavic era.

The exposition also tells about the development of the region in the times of the Cossacks.

The manor in Vyshniaky was built in 1805 by Colonel Radion Palaments from Hadyach, probably according to the project of the famous architect Mykola Lviv.

The two-story house in the style of classicism is located on a slope going down to the Khorol River, and was once surrounded by a park and an orchard. The compositional center of the building is an oval hall topped by a dome with a low spire. Above the main entrance is a carved wooden balcony-terrace resting on massive stone pillars. On the park facade, four pillars support a semicircular balcony.

Radion Palamenets was married to Nadiya Obolonska, whose Cossack family owned Vyshniaky since 1744. After the founder's death, the manor was inherited by his wife, and then by her brother, Demyan Obolonskyi. The poet and artist Taras Shevchenko knew his son, the editor and publisher of the magazine "Narodne khednyi" Oleksandr Obolonsky well. In 1845, the Obolonsky hosted Shevchenko at the Vyshniaky estate, which he later mentioned in the story "The Twins" (a commemorative plaque was installed).

Later, the landlady Rodzyanko-Kotlyarevska became the owner of the Vyshniaky, whose name the estate now bears.

Now this is the closed territory of a boarding house for the disabled.

The Kotlyarevsky manor is connected by an underground passage with the Trinity Church located opposite.

The renovated art salon in Kremenchuk is an active creative platform that combines an exhibition space, a democratic bar, a platform for creative experiments, a designer store and a literary house.

This is a space for the presentation of creative works, freedom of creative expression, communication between the artist and the viewer. Workshops, cultural and educational programs, round tables, discussions, master classes, lectures, seminars, meetings with young and prominent representatives of modern culture are held here.

Kremenchuk Automobile Plant (AvtoKrAZ), which has been producing heavy-duty civilian and military vehicles since 1958, opened its own museum back in 1967. Initially, it was a small room in the new engineering building, where several dozen exhibits, documents and photographs were placed. In 1970, the factory museum moved to a spacious room in the new educational building, where it is still located.

The updated museum of the history of the AvtoKrAZ plant opened its doors after a large-scale reconstruction in 2015. Now it houses more than 2,000 exhibits, including models of cars (including military ones), machines and tools, as well as many documents and photographs. The exposition tells about all periods of the establishment and development of the enterprise and about all modifications of KrAZ cars that were produced there.

Among the visitors of the museum over the past half century have been numerous delegations from foreign countries and honored guests of Kremenchuk, including pilot-cosmonaut Oleksiy Leonov, singer Sofiya Rotaru and others.

Kremenchuk Museum of Local Lore was opened in 1975. The exposition of the museum is located in 11 halls and covers geography, history, ethnography and art of the region.

The number of exhibits stored in the funds of the Museum of Local Lore is over 66 thousand units. The paleontological collection of the museum is the largest in Poltava region. The funds contain a wonderful collection of minerals and rocks, as well as a unique sample of fossil amber weighing 525 grams, which is over 30 million years old. The archeological collection of the museum includes more than 6,000 items, covering the time range from the Mousterian Paleolithic to the excavation materials of the late medieval fortress Kremenchuk.

The oldest manuscript document stored in the museum dates back to 1813. The thematic collection "Life of Kremenchuk citizens at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries" is significant.

The Museum of the History of Pedagogy of Kremenchuk was created in 2025 on the basis of the former pedagogical and memorial house-museum of Anton Makarenko, opened in his parents' house in Kremenchuk in 1951.

The museum collection includes about 34 thousand exhibits, including personal belongings of Anton Makarenko (chess, glasses, trumpet, violin), furniture and books of his parents. Currently, work is underway to create an updated exposition of the museum of pedagogical practices and experience, which was in various Ukrainian schools, which will tell about outstanding Ukrainian teachers.

The monument to Anton Makarenko, located near the future museum of pedagogy, may be dismantled in the future.