Attractions of Pustoviitivka

The wooden Holy Trinity Church in Pustoviitivka was founded in 1773 at the expense of the last basket chieftain of Zaporizhzhia Sich, Petro Kalnyshevskyi.

After the Second World War, the temple premises were used as a warehouse.

In 2007, the Trinity Church in Pustoviitivka was reconstructed according to traditional technologies of folk wooden architecture as part of the creation of a memorial to Petro Kalnyshevskyi.

The first monument in Ukraine to Petro Kalnyshevskyi, the last kosh chieftain of Zaporizhzhia Sich, was erected in the village of Pustoviitivka, where he was born in 1691.

In fact, with the installation of this monument in 1991, the creation of the Kalnyshevsky memorial in Pustoviitivka began.

The chieftain is depicted with the hetman's mace in his hand. The authors of the monument are academician Vasyl Boroday and sculptor Rostyslav Synko.

The memorial complex of the last Kish Otaman of the Zaporizhzhia Sich Petro Kalnyshevsky in the village of Pustoviitivka in the Sumy region includes the Museum of Petro Kalnyshevsky, which is a department of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve "Posullya".

The museum was founded in 2005 on the basis of materials from the Romny Museum of Local Lore, which previously formed the exhibition "Legendary Koshovy ". It is located in the house of culture of the village of Pustoviitivka, in the homeland of Petro Kalnyshevsky.

The main exposition tells about the life of the Kish Otaman: childhood in his native village, dedication to the Sich, service in the Zaporozhzhian Lowland Army, election as Kish Otaman, participation in the Russo-Turkish war of 1768-1774, imprisonment by order of the tsarist government and exile on Solovki. Reconstruction of the interior of the Solovki cell, where Petro Kalnyshevsky spent 25 years, is presented.

Also on display are fragments of a wooden Trinity Church, built at the expense of the Otaman in Pustoviitivka (now reconstructed). You can also see a collection of Cossack weapons, coins, pipes, icons.

Two more exhibition halls present local archeological finds of Scythian times and materials about other prominent natives of Pustoviitivka.

Saint Nicholas Church in Pustoviitivka was founded in 1900 according to the project of Poltava architect Serhiн Nosov.

Construction was completed in 1906.

Currently, the Nicholas Church is active and belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Literary Museum of Writers Leonid Poltava and Yosyp Dudka operates in the village of Pustoviitivka at the Pustoviitivka Secondary School named after Petro Kalnyshevsky.

The institution opened in 2006 as a memorial museum of the poet, publicist, and public figure Leonid Poltava to mark the 85th anniversary of his birth. The museum's exposition introduces the life and creative path of Leonid Poltava, editions of his books in English and Ukrainian, family photos, performance posters, opera and operetta librettos, collections of badges, key chains, coins, stamps, envelopes, and personal belongings of Leonid Poltava, which were donated to the museum by his family from New York.

Later, a museum exposition was opened to mark the 95th anniversary of the birth of Yosyp Dudka - a famous poet and teacher of Romny region, an extraordinary person, and an ardent patriot of his land.