Attractions of Poltava region

The memorial museum-estate of the philosopher and collector of Opishnia ceramics Leonid Smorzh was opened in 2010 in the village of Opishnia Miski Mlyny.

The exposition is based on the largest in Ukraine private collection of Opishnia ceramics, which during 1960-1990 was collected by a famous Ukrainian scientist, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor Leonid Opanasovych Smorzh. The collection includes about 700 unique author's pottery works of famous potters Opishny - Ivan Bilyk, Mykhaylo Kytrysh, Havrylo and Mykola Poshyvaylo, Hryhoriy Tyahun, Vasyl Omelyanenko, Trokhym Demchenko, Oleksandra Selyuchenko. The vast majority of these works exist in only one copy, as they are made to order.

In addition to ceramics, the exhibition presents embroidered Ukrainian men's and women's shirts, towels and tablecloths, as well as about 100 Easter eggs collected in different regions of Ukraine, striking bright colors and rich symbolism.

The Leonid Smorzh Museum-Estate also houses a private library of the scientist, which is about 3,000 books, including rare editions. A large number of photographs and personal belongings of the collector, which are presented in the museum's exposition, complement the exposition.

The Memorial Museum-Estate of the philosopher and collector of Opishnia ceramics Leonid Smorzh is one of the subdivisions of the National Museum-Reserve of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishnia.

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 Living Museum of Verguns in the village of Checheleve, Poltava Region, was founded in 2018 by the owner of the green tourism estate Country House UA, Nadiya Mykhailova. The museum was created to popularize the region's gastronomic brand - Kremenchuk verguns, i.e. crispy cookies made from unleavened dough.

Verguns gained popularity in the Kremenchuk region at the end of the 19th century due to the fact that their production did not require much time and expensive products. The museum stores many recipes for making these simple sweets: in milk, in whey, in sour cream, in vodka, in wine, in water, soft, fluffy, crispy, vegetable, fruit, spicy, salty, etc.

Visitors to the museum are offered a historical excursion (the emergence of verguns, legends, sayings), acquaintance with vergun recipes, ingredients and kitchen utensils, a master class on making verguns in an open-air kitchen, fun culinary entertainment, tasting verguns with vitamin tea and varenukha, a photo shoot as a keepsake.

Additional services: tractor rides, communication with animals on a mini-farm, additional dishes and drinks, a souvenir shop.

The Lokhvytsia Museum of Local Lore named after Hryhoriy Skovoroda is located in the old one-story building of the county court, built in 1865.

The museum was founded in 1919 on the basis of the collection of the local real school. Among the exhibits of the museum are collections of Cossack weapons, archaeological finds, sacred objects, samples of decorative and applied art, weapons of the Second World War period.

The museum is named after the poet and thinker, native of this region Hryhoriy Skovoroda. Part of the exposition is devoted to his life and work.

In the courtyard of the museum there are samples of weapons and military equipment from the Second World War.

The Lubny Museum of Local Lore named after Hnat Stelletsky is one of the oldest museums in the Poltava region.

Founded in the second half of the 19th century. Initially, it was a museum room at the Lubny Male Gymnasium. The initiator of the opening and the first director was the Ukrainian archaeologist, teacher Fedir Kaminsky. The basis of the exposition was the finds made by him during excavations in the Lubny region.

In 1918, on the basis of the nationalized museum of the gymnasium, the State Museum of Local Lore was created, which currently has about 30,000 exhibits in its collections. Occupies an old one-story mansion in the city center.

In the permanent exposition of Lubny Local Lore Museum named after Hnat Stelletsky - archaeological finds of the Hintsevska settlement lot from the Eneolithic era, decorations from the Scythian era, relics from the Cossack times of the 17th-18th centuries, materials about the Mhar Monastery. There is a collection of numismatics, church utensils, and old books.

A collection of "Scythian women" is exhibited near the entrance to the local lore museum.

The Manuilivka Literary and Local Lore Museum in the village of Verkhnia Manuilivka began working on July 13, 2022. It was created on the basis of the Literary and Memorial Museum of Maksym Horky, which was closed in May 2022 by the decision of the village council as part of decommunization.

The museum is located in five halls of a building in the park of the former estate of landowner Oleksandra Orlovska.

Currently, the format of the museum is being changed. A special working group, created from local local historians and specialists from Poltava, is working on the filling of new museum exhibits.

The Manuilivka Literary and Local Lore Museum is formally working, but the exposition is just beginning to be created.

The memorial to the victims of the "Khorol Yama" concentration camp was created in 1991 in the former Khorol suburb of Dubky, where a German concentration camp for prisoners of war existed from 1941 to 1943.

The death camp was located near the quarry of the brick factory. Only in the first six months of its existence, more than 37,000 people died. In total, the ashes of about 91,000 residents of Khorol and other cities of Ukraine, soldiers, officers and partisans lie in six of the mass graves known to date.

The ministerial (state) school in Chornukhy was built in 1900-1903 by the zemstvo of Lohvytskyi District. This two-story building in the style of classicism is the oldest architectural monument of the village.

Initially, the school was two-class, with a five-year term of study. Since 1918, it bears the name of Hryhoriy Skovoroda, who was born in Chornukhy. In 1972, a new school building was built nearby, but the old school also continues to be used for its intended purpose. Today it is Chornukhy Lyceum named after Hryhoriy Skovoroda.

The former monument at the resting place of Peter I in Poltava, according to legend, was erected where in the 18th century the house of the Cossack Mahdenko was located, in which the Russian Tsar Peter I stayed on the second day after the Battle of Poltava in 1709.

The first monument, erected in 1817, was a simple brick obelisk. In 1849, the current monument of architect Oleksandr Bryullov, brother of the famous artist Karl Bryullov, was erected instead.

The rest of the emperor after the victory in the Battle of Poltava is symbolized by the ancient Russian helmet crowned with a laurel wreath and the round shield, which rests peacefully on the hero's sword. A high-relief image of a sleeping lion is placed in the lower part of the granite pedestal. The inscription on the pedestal says: "Peter I rested here after his exploits on June 27, 1709."

In 2025, the monument at the resting place of Peter I in Poltava was dismantled as part of the decolonization of public space and the removal of symbols of Russian imperial ideology.

The monument to plumbers in Kremenchuk was created at the expense of employees of the local water utility. It is designed to perpetuate the difficult work of locksmiths and plumbers.

The monument was installed at the entrance to the utility company "Kremenchukvodokanal" on the occasion of the company's 95th anniversary.

The sculpture depicts two workers twisting the valve of a water supply.

The monument to Solokha in Poltava region is installed on the R-42 highway between Velyki Sorochyntsi and Opishnia, near the turn to the village of Stavkove. According to legend, the village was founded by the landowner Solokha, so until 1964 it was named Solokha.

The sculptural image of Solokha is based on the character from Mykola Hohol's story "The Night Before Christmas" and the Soviet film "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka". The aphorism of the Ukrainian writer Pavlo Zahrebelnyi is engraved on the pedestal: "An army can be defeated - a woman never!".

A recreation area is equipped next to the monument.

The Motoball Track near Vyshniaky is the home arena of the Niva Motoball club.

Matches of the Ukrainian motorball championship are played here. In 1995, 2007, 2009 matches of the European Championship were held.

The Khomutets Palace is the ancestral estate of the Cossack family of the Apostols, where the Decembrist meetings were held in the 1820s.

The wooden palace was built in Khomutets by the future Hetman of Ukraine Danylo Apostol in the 18th century. Later, the estate was inherited by the writer, historian and public figure Ivan Muravyov-Apostol. After settling in Khomutets, he replanned the park and added stone wings to the palace, connecting them to the main building with semicircular passages.

Ivan Muravyov-Apostol's sons Matviy, Serhiy and Ipolit, who were active participants in the Decembrist movement, held secret Decembrist meetings here with the participation of Pavlo Pestel, Mykhaylo Bestuzhev-Ryumin and others.

In Soviet times, the palace housed a veterinary and zootechnical school, and a room-museum of the Decembrists was opened.

Recently, the building is in an extremely neglected state and is collapsing. The stucco with the coats of arms of the former owners has been preserved.

In a regular landscape park with an area of 15 hectares, there is a trinity oak, planted by Ivan Muravyov-Apostol in honor of his three sons.

The Museum of Boiled Borscht and the Museum of Living Bread were opened in Opishnia on the basis of the green tourism estate "Lyalyna svitlytsya" during the ethno-festival "Living Bread" in 2020.

The owner of the estate, Olena Shcherban, prepares daily borscht for guests according to a new recipe, of which she knows at least 365. Among them are wedding, funeral, winter, summer, white, brown and many others.

In one of the houses of the ethnic estate there is a collection of pots from different regions, stags, as well as a traditional oven in which dishes are prepared. Ingredients added to borscht in different regions of Ukraine are also presented.

The Museum-Estate of Green Tourism "Mykhailove Chudo" (Michael's Miracle) operates in the village of Trubaitsi in the Poltava region. It was opened in 2025 by the couple Yana and Mykhailo Voloshyns on the farm of their ancestors.

In the middle of the village courtyard there is a large hut under the reeds, built at the beginning of the 19th century. In ancient times it was a village korchma (tavern).

The ethnographic exposition in several museum rooms tells about the history of the village of Trubaitsi and the ancient life of its inhabitants. The tools of rural labor, old dishes, household items, embroidered towels, home icons, large chests in which girls put their dowries are presented.

There is a residential house nearby where you can rent rooms for relaxation. In the yard there are gazebos, swings and a small stage for holding various events.