The village of Vovchyk on the left bank of the Sula River is located 15 kilometers northeast of Lubny. Administratively, it is part of the Lubny hromada of the Lubny district of the Poltava region.
According to legend, the village was founded by the old Cossack Khamula on a spit at the confluence of the Sulytsia River into the Sula, but was later moved to the opposite bank of the Sula. The first written mention dates back to 1658, when Vovchyk was listed as part of the Lubny hundred of the Lubny regiment.
In the middle of the 18th century, Vovchyk belonged partly to the landowner Ivanytsky, and partly to the Mhar monastery. In 1881, the Saint Michael's Church was built (not preserved). As of the beginni ...
Ivan Sayenko Local Lore Museum
Museum / gallery
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.
Administrative status | village |
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Founded / first mentioned | 1658 |
Latitude | 50.07425 |
Longitude | 33.19071 |
Population | 1483 |
Postal codes | 37533 |
Region | Poltava |