Attractions of Poltava region

The Peoples Museum "Musical Poltava Region" at the Poltava Professional College of Arts is named after its founder - Ukrainian conductor, teacher, composer and folklorist Mykhaylo Fisun, who began forming the collection of the future museum in the early 1970s.

Currently, the exhibition is presented in three thematic halls: "History of the Poltava Music College named after Mykola Lysenko", "The Founder of Ukrainian Classical Music Mykola Lysenko and His Followers", "Musical Poltava Region".

Among the exhibits: photographs, documents, letters, printed and handwritten works of composers, souvenirs, ceramics, sculpture, minting, records. In particular, a collection of ritual songs with the personal seal of Mykola Lysenko, a collection of folk songs with the autograph of the Ukrainian writer Marko Vovchok, the score of the cantata "In Eternal Memory of Ivan Kotlyarevsky" with the autograph of Mykola Lysenko, etc.

Also in the museum you can learn about the life and fate of the most famous kobzars and lyrists of the Poltava region.

The former landowner's estate in Bilousivka was founded in the 19th century. Until 1845, the estate belonged to the landowner Stepan Petrovsky, whose son Petro studied at the St. Petersburg Academy together with Taras Shevchenko. The poet dedicated the poem "Topol" to his sister Paraskeva.

According to legend, Shevchenko visited Bilousivka during his trips to Ukraine in 1843-1845. Allegedly, he painted the picture "Night in Martosivshchyna" here.

The house is one-story, four-room. In front of the entrance is a veranda with a colonnade. The last owner of the estate was Andriy Anderson, the son-in-law (according to other sources, the adopted son) of the Bilousivka landowner Bebel. Currently, it is the Bilousivka secondary school.

The Pharmacy Museum in the village of Rashivka is the only such institution in the Poltava region. It was created in 2019 on the initiative of a local artist, researcher of the history of the village and public figure Yuliya Kobizka.

The museum's exposition is located in an old brick building of a former pharmacy in the center of Rashivka and tells about more than 130 years of work of the first medical and sanitary institution in the village, which opened in 1892.

In the sales hall with stucco molding in the village around the chandelier of the 19th century, and until recently, it was possible to purchase medicines. The second hall recreates the interior of an old pharmacy laboratory - an assistant's desk, equipment for washing and drying pharmacy utensils, cabinets for storing medicines, etc. are on display. The history room presents authentic pharmacy furniture, equipment and devices from the first half of the 20th century. Documents and old photographs tell about the development of pharmacy in Rashivka.

The sculpture of a plumber, looking waist-deep from a sewer hatch, is one of the new sights of Horishni Plavni.

The plumber is depicted with a wrench in his hand and, judging by the expression on his face, a little tipsy. A dog is sitting opposite him on the hatch cover.

The author of the monument is sculptor Oleh Ryabo.

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.

Poltava Museum of Local Lore after Vasyl Krychevsky is located in the former building of the present places of the provincial zemstvo.

The building of the provincial zemstvo was built by the architect Vasyl Krychevsky in the Art Nouveau style with elements of the Ukrainian folk style (this fact caused dissatisfaction of Emperor Mykola II). The interior painting was made by prominent artists Serhiy Vasylkivsky and Mykola Samokysh. The facade is decorated with coats of arms of county towns of the province.

The foundation of the exposition of the local history museum in Poltava was laid in 1891 by the scientist Viktor Dokuchayev. Today there are more than 300,000 exhibits in 40 museum halls and vaults. Among the rarities - the ancient Egyptian collection, works of ancient and oriental art, Cossack relics.

The Poltava Local Lore Museum after Vasyl Krychevsky is temporarily closed for restoration.

Memorial Manor Museum of potter's family Poshyvaylo is dedicated to representatives of one of the oldest pottery dynasties of Opishnia.

A collection of pottery by masters of the Poshyvaylo dynasty and works of other types of folk art are presented.

During the tour, guests are introduced to the history of the creation of the manor museum, the interiors of the house, and family photos.

Pyvykha Mountain in Hradyzk on the banks of the Kremenchuk Reservoir is considered the highest point on the left bank of the Dnipro or the Dnipro Lowland (168 meters). It is sometimes mistakenly called the highest point of Left-Bank Ukraine.

It arose as a result of the onset of continental ice during the Ice Age. There are outcrops of blue marl - a rare highly calcareous clay used in construction.

It is believed that the name of the mountain is connected with the settlement that existed here in ancient times, which belonged to the boyars Pyva.

In the 16th century, the Pyvohorsky Monastery was founded, near which the settlement of Horodyshche, and later the present Hradyzk, arose.

After the construction of the Kremenchuk Reservoir, Mount Pyvykha is gradually collapsing. It is a historical and geological reserve.

The Reshetylivka City Council Local Lore Museum is located in the premises of the Culture and Leisure Center of the urban-type settlement of Reshetylivka. It was opened in 1965 at the initiative of the local community.

The exposition is spread over three rooms and has over 3,500 exhibits. The historical sections of the museum tell about the founding and development of Reshetylivka in ancient times, about the period of social upheavals of the early 20th century, about Soviet rule and the events of World War II, etc.

The pride of the museum is the department of weaving and carpet weaving, where you can get acquainted with the origins and development of folk art of Reshetylivka region in the conditions of subsistence farming, the activities of the Poltava provincial zemstvo regarding the revival of handicrafts at the beginning of the 20th century, the work of local art and industrial artels, a factory of art crafts and a school of craftsmen.

The best examples of Reshetylivka carpets, embroidery, embroidered towels made by local craftsmen are presented. Among the unique exhibits: carpets "Centauri and birds", "Peacocks" (Leonid Tovstukha), carpets "Tree of Life", "Autumn", "Red Viburnum", towels "Berehynia", "Tree of Life" (Nadia Babenko), shirts made by Olena Vasylenko and much more.

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.

Since 1962, the modest Saint Macarius Church has been the cathedral of the Poltava Diocese.

The small parish Macarius church was built on the outskirts of the city at the beginning of the 20th century. According to the prophecy of the foolish Kuzma Ivashyn from Horbanivka, who lived in the 20s of the last century, this church was supposed to withstand the calamity and later become a cathedral, since almost all other churches of the city would be destroyed. And so it happened - a wave of temple destruction in Soviet times bypassed the Macarius Church. And after the Transfiguration Cathedral was demolished in 1962, it really acquired the status of a cathedral.

Several restorations did not change its original appearance. Paintings from the beginning of the 20th century have been preserved in the interior, in the northern part of the church there is the largest shrine of the cathedral - the Horbaniv miracle-working icon of the Holy Mother of God (1786), in the Illinsky aisle - the revered Kapluniv miracle-working icon.

Saint Michael's Church in Kovali was founded in 1901. The original temple was built of oak without a single nail.

During the Second World War, the church was damaged, later it was used as a chemical warehouse. In the 1960s, it was destroyed by the Soviet authorities. And only in 1993, the Saint Michael's Church was revived and rebuilt from bricks on the old foundation.

The Saint Nicholas Church in Dykanka is the ancestral temple-tomb of the Kochubey family.

The church was built in 1794 by count Viktor Kochubey on the territory of the count's estate, on the site of the old wooden church of the 17th century. According to legend, there was a stump on this place, on which the icon of Nicholas the Wonderworker appeared. Before this image, the mother of Mykola Hohol prayed for the health of her future son, named the child in his honor.

When constructing the Nicholas Church, the architect Mykola Lviv used the style of Moravian rotunda churches. The internal volume is covered by a complex double dome system with petals of glass frames that open in the summer. When singers in choirs sing, it seems that the sound comes from heaven. Also a unique system of air heating and ventilation of premises.

The stained oak iconostasis and fragments of the original painting have been preserved. The belfry above the gate is made in the style characteristic of Catholic churches.

In the basement there is a crypt with original sarcophagi, in which several generations of Kochubeys rest.

In Soviet times, a museum of atheism was opened in the premises. Currently, the Nicholas Church is active and is used by the UOC community of the Moscow Patriarchate.

Nearby, there are 800-year-old Kochubey oaks, planted at the entrance to the former princely estate from the Poltava side.

Saint Nicholas Church in Vepryk was built in 1823 in the style of classicism.

The central part is crowned by a hemispherical dome on a tall cylindrical drum, above the western vestibule - a two-tier bell tower, completed by a dome with a spire. The northern, southern and western facades are decorated with four-column Tuscan porticos with triangular pediments.

In the interior of the Saint Nicholas Church, the remains of an oil painting of the 19th century have been preserved.

Until recently, the temple was in an extremely deplorable state, but restoration is currently underway.

An architectural monument of national importance.

The Church of Nicholas the Wonderworker was founded during the construction of the Poltava Fortress, and was located on one of its bastions on Institute Hill.

At first it was wooden. In 1774, a new stone Saint Nicholas Church was built. By the middle of the 19th century, the small church could no longer accommodate all the parishioners, and in 1855, a two-story stone annex was built at the expense of the merchant Mykola Vakulenko, on the second floor of which the warm church of George the Victorious was located.

The main temple was destroyed during the Second World War (fragments of brick walls remained), and the annex was preserved - in Soviet times it was used as a production facility.

Currently, the Saint Nicholas Church is functioning. Belongs to the community of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.