Attractions of Poltava district

The Church in honor of the holy martyrs Faith, Hope, Love and their mother Sophia was built in 2002 at the initiative of the city authorities and the women's religious community of Poltava.

The author of the project is the Honored Artist of Ukraine, architect Anatoliy Chornoshchokov. Inside the church, the earthly abode of Jesus Christ is separated to the entire height of the church by a carved iconostasis made by masters of the Lviv company "Syaivo". Some icons were brought from the Pochaiv Lavra.

The five-bath temple in the style of classicism is crowned by a central five-meter cross. Decorative baths contain seven bells. All of them were cast at the Poltava Locomotive Repair Plant. The most powerful of them, weighing 271 kilograms, is called "Poltava".

The 200-year-old Trinity Church, which adorns the center of Kotelva, is an architectural monument.

It was built in 1812 on the site of a burned down wooden temple, founded in the 17th century. The stone church became the fourth after the three wooden ones that were there before it.

The authorship of the Holy Trinity church project in the style of classicism is attributed to Kharkiv architect Petro Yaroslavskyi. In 1835, a stone belfry was added. On the eastern side, a brick fence with openwork metal gates and wickets has been preserved. The interiors are decorated with paintings of the 19th century.

The church has a library of spiritual literature, and a Sunday school.

The Holy Trinity Church in Velyki Budyshcha is the only one preserved in the village from pre-revolutionary times.

It was built in 1819 in the style of classicism. Architectural monument of the 19th century. It is one of the objects of the "Dykansky" Regional Landscape Park.

The Museum of Pottery of Mali Budyshcha "Honcharia Ethnovillage" has been operating since 2021 as a separate structural unit of the National Museum-Reserve of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishnia.

It is located on the territory of one of the largest pottery centers of the Opishnia pottery district - in the village of Mali Budyshcha, located on the northern outskirts of Opishnia.

In one of the two buildings will be presented local pottery, sketches of pottery paintings, epistolary heritage, photographic documents, photos, wood products and more.

In the second - the interior of the potter's house of the late XIX - early XX centuries is recreated.

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 Kobeliaky Ecopark opened in 2018 as a municipal enterprise of the Kobeliaky City Council. It is located in a green area near the forest on the banks of the Vorskla River on the eastern outskirts of the city.

The ecopark is based on a contact zoo, which is home to such exotic animals as ostriches, kangaroos, monkeys, and porcupines. In addition, deer, foxes, nutria, the wild boar family are more common here, as well as domestic ponies, donkeys, sheep, goats, etc.

The Kobeliaky ecopark has recreation areas where you can conveniently have a picnic. Pony riding is offered, and there are several photo zones.

The Kobeliaky Museum of Literature and Art is named after its founder, a local teacher, local historian, artist and writer Oleksii 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 Anatolii 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.

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 Kuntseve hydroelectric power station on the Vorskla River was built in 1953 on the outskirts of the Kuntseve village.

In 2007, reconstruction was carried out and permanent work was resumed. The capacity of Kuntseve HPP is 400 kilowatts.

A good place for recreation and fishing.

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 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 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 Nadiia Bokoch Towel Museum in the village of Stepne bears the name of its founder. Local collector Nadiia Bokoch began collecting antique towels in the early 2000s. Her private collection became the basis of the museum, which opened in 2009 on the second floor of the local cultural center.

Currently, the exhibition features over 600 exhibits, most of which are embroidered towels collected from all districts of Poltava region, as well as from Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Vinnytsia, Transcarpathia and other regions of Ukraine. All of them are hand-embroidered in different techniques and have patterns characteristic of their regions. Embroidered paintings, rural clothing and household items are also presented.

One of the exhibits is the "Peoples Friendship Towel", which Nadiya Bokoch embroidered herself, collecting in it samples of embroidery techniques from different parts of Ukraine at the same time.

The Novi Sanzhary Local Lore Museum was founded in 1967 on the initiative of a local school teacher, Ivan Pylypenko. In 2016, an updated exhibition opened in the premises of the old Novi Sanzhary school, which was built in 1905.

Historical materials from the life of the village and the district were presented in the exhibitions "Nature", "Ethnography", "History", "World War II", "Art", "Culture".

Currently, the museum is closed.

The memorial house-museum of the world-famous potter Oleksandra Seliuchenko in Opishnia tells about the life and creative path of the honored master of folk art of Ukraine, one of the most outstanding masters of traditional clay zoo- and anthropomorphic sculpture of small forms.

She was born in 1921 in a family of simple potters and lived all her life in Opishnia, only once leaving her native village for a while. Oleksandra Seliuchenko is considered an unsurpassed master of traditional Ukrainian clay toys.

In the museum, you can familiarize yourself with her works and the technology of making clay products at home.

An old potter's kiln used by a ceramist has been preserved in the courtyard of the manor.

The memorial museum-estate of the famous potter Oleksandra Seliuchenko in Opishna is a subdivision of the National Museum-Reserve of Ukrainian Pottery.