Attractions of Poltava region

The Poltava Literary and Memorial Museum of Volodymyr Korolenko was opened in the house where the writer and his family lived for the last 18 years of his life and where he died in 1921.

The writer's creativity is closely connected with Ukraine, where he was born and spent his childhood, and where he returned towards the end of his life. In Poltava, Korolenko worked on a large autobiographical work, "The History of My Contemporary", which was supposed to summarize everything he had experienced and systematize his philosophical views. The work remained unfinished. The writer died while working on the fourth volume. He was buried on the territory of Peremohy Park near the estate.

The estate itself was restored after the war. The complex includes a building-museum (memorial part), a wing (exhibition hall), a garden. In the reconstructed office of Korolenko, you can see his desk, writing instruments, and a wooden couch.

The house of the merchant Vozdvyzhenskyi (Vozdvyzhenko) in Zinkiv served as a meeting place for the nobility before the Soviet-Ukrainian war.

Vozdvyzhenskyi was the son of a poor burgher from Zinkiv, who traded in tar. Thanks to his entrepreneurial talent, he became a famous industrialist: he built a brick factory, oil mills, and a mill. Later, he began to build high-rise buildings in Zinkiv.

The original building in the style of early romantic modernism with neo-Gothic elements was built in 1897. Now it is a dormitory.

A thirty-meter Water Tower with an ornamental edging in the upper part is a business card of Pyriatyn.

It was built in 1951 on the Kyiv-Poltava highway next to the "Pyriatyn-1" bus station. In the 1960s, the gas station located next to it became the filming location of the popular film comedy "Queen of the Gas Station" of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko Kyiv Film Studio based on the script of the writer-humorist from Poltava region Petro Lubenskyi, thanks to which the Pyriatyn Tower became famous throughout the country.

Currently not used as intended. On the site of the old gas station, there is now a modern gas station, a cafe, a motel and a roadside bazaar. In the building of the bus station, there is a cafe-museum "Queen of Gas Stations", in which, according to legend, episodes were filmed in the buffet.

The Reshetylivka workshop of artistic crafts was founded in 1905 by the Poltava provincial zemstvo as an exemplary and demonstration weaving workshop.

Unique hand-made tapestry carpets, famous Poltava embroidered towels, national clothes with delicate embroidery, etc. were made here.

In Soviet times, the workshop was transformed into an artillery, then into a factory named after Klara Zetkin.

Today it is one of the oldest enterprises of folk arts and crafts in Ukraine. Its products adorn the interiors of many government buildings, embassies of Ukraine, high-class hotels, etc.

Visitors can observe the work of craftsmen, make an individual order or purchase finished products.

The palace and park complex in Berezova Rudka was built in 1838 by landowner Platon Zakrevskyi, a historian and ethnographer.

The palace in neo-baroque style was built according to the project of the architect Yevhen Chervinsky on the site of a burnt wooden house of the 18th century.

The estate consists of an elegant two-story palace with a view terrace and two bay windows, two one-story outbuildings and a large park (45 hectares) with more than 40 species of trees and shrubs.

In the 1840s, the brothers Viktor and Platon Zakrevsky repeatedly hosted the poet and artist Taras Shevchenko. Here he began to write the poem "Caucasus" and also painted portraits of the Zakrevskys. It is believed that Shevchenko was secretly in love with Platon Zakrevskyi's wife Hanna, dedicating to her the poem "If we met again", which became a famous romance.

Since Soviet times, the estate has housed an agricultural technical school. A monument to Taras Shevchenko has been installed in the central flower bed.

In one of the wings there is a historical and local history museum, which presents photos and documents of the Zakrevsky family, furniture, dishes, books and paintings.

Employees conduct tours of the palace, the park and to the pyramid-tomb of the Zakrevskys.

Chornukhy Zemska School is one of more than 50 schools built by Lokhvytsia zemstvo in Poltava region at the beginning of the 20th century.

The building in the style of Ukrainian Art Nouveau was erected in 1913 according to the project of the architect Opanas Slastion (Slaston), who was also known as an artist, ethnographer and art critic. In his projects, the architect used characteristic techniques of traditional Ukrainian architecture - trapezoidal windows, broken multi-pitched tent roofs with ledges, stylized towers.

The Zemska school in Chornukhy was a three-classroom, with a library and a teacher's apartment. The building is wooden, covered with brick and decorated with ornamental masonry.

Until 1978, the school building was used for its intended purpose. Now it houses the House of Children's and Youth Creativity and the Young Naturalist's Club.

The original building of the two-class Zemska school in Mokiivka was built in 1912 in the style of Ukrainian Art Nouveau, according to the project of the architect Opanas Slastion (Slaston), who at one time was also known as an artist and ethnographer.

His architectural projects were distinguished by the use of elements of traditional folk architecture. In particular, on behalf of the Lohvytsia zemstvo, he developed projects for more than 50 rural schools, the characteristic features of which were hexagonal trapezoidal window openings, multi-sloped tent roofs with cracks and colorful towers.

The Mokiivka Zemska School has been well preserved and is still used for its intended purpose - the building houses primary classes and the preschool department of the Mokiivka Gymnasium. There is also a school library and a public museum - one room with local history exhibits.

Zemska school in Kharsiky was built in 1913 according to the project of architect, artist and ethnographer Opanas Slastion (Slaston), whose works were distinguished by the use of traditional forms of Ukrainian architecture.

Slastion designed a number of schools in the style of Ukrainian Art Nouveau at the request of Lohvytsia Zemstvo. The building of the Kharsiky school is one-story, U-shaped, with hexagonal trapezoidal windows and two two-story towers with spires. The facades are decorated with decorative brickwork.

In addition to the school, the complex included a wooden barn, an oak cellar, a well and a fence. The building was used for its intended purpose until 1984, when the school was moved to a new building, and a medical and labor institution was placed in the old premises.

Currently, the facility is in an abandoned state.

The Kizlivka Zemska School is one of the fifty surviving schools of the Lohvytsia Zemstvo, built at the beginning of the 20th century according to the designs of the architect, artist and ethnographer Opanas Slastion (Slaston) in the style of Ukrainian Art Nouveau. All of them are distinguished by the use of reinterpreted techniques of traditional Ukrainian architecture.

The school in Kizlivka is two-class, one-story, with a characteristic two-story tower with a spire. The Slastion style is also well read by trapezoidal windows, tented roofs and brick decoration. The building is still used for its intended purpose - it is an auxiliary building of the Kizlivka Lyceum.

The two-class Zemska school in Hiltsi was built in 1911 according to the project of the famous architect Opanas Slastion (Slaston), who used elements of traditional Ukrainian architecture in his works.

The one-story brick building with ornamental masonry has tall hexagonal windows and a magnificent tented tower in the style of Ukrainian Art Nouveau.

The guardian of the school was the head of the public education department of the district zemstvo administration, Prince Kochubey, whose farm was located nearby. Volodymyr Hres (Otaman Gonta), who in 1920 became one of the leaders of the rebel movement in Poltava Region, was the first teacher of the Gilets Zemska Primary School.

The building is still in good condition and is used for its intended purpose.

The former Zemska school building is located at the entrance to the village of Ryhy from the Krynytsia side.

It was one of the fifty schools of Lokhvytsia zemstvo, built in the first half of the 20th century according to the project of the famous architect and ethnographer Opanas Slastion (Slaston) in the style of Ukrainian modernism with the use of folk-style romantic decorative elements. A characteristic feature is the trapezoidal window and door openings, as well as the tented roof with folds.

The decorative tower above the vestibule was dismantled during the Soviet era, when the building housed the Ryhy Village Cultural Center.