Attractions of Poltava region

The Myrhorod State Ceramic Technical School was founded in 1896 as an art and industrial school named after Mykola Hohol, which graduated masters in the production of pottery, terracotta, majolica, porcelain and earthenware products.

The main body is made in the style of the French Renaissance.

In 1992, the young Kateryna Bilokur, a future famous folk artist, tried to enter the Myrhorod Technical School of Ceramics, but was not accepted due to lack of secondary education.

Currently, it is the Mykola Hohol Art and Industrial College of Myrhorod.

The museum exhibition has existed at the school since its foundation. The exhibition was based on 20 copies of famous sculptures by Falcone, Adamson, Pimenov and others. A unique majolica iconostasis (1902) from Myrhorod Holy Assumption Cathedral is kept here.

The Chovno-Fedorivka Historical Museum is located in the premises of the secondary school of the village of Chovno-Fedorivka. It was created in 2009 by the efforts of local teachers and schoolchildren.

The "Ancient History of the Village" department tells about life in Chovno-Fedorivka and the surrounding farms in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It exhibits dishes, clothes, towels, household items, tools, and historical photographs.

The section "The Village in the 1920s - 1940s" presents a large number of memories of the villagers about the Holodomor of 1932-1933, shell casings from World War II, agricultural tools (one-horse plow, millstone, corn planter).

The following sections introduce the modern life of the village of Chovno-Fedorivka and the history of the village school.

The municipal institution of culture "Chutove Museum of Local Lore" covers the history of Chutove region from ancient times to the end of the XX century, as well as tells about the famous inhabitants of the region.

The museum was founded in 1968 and is located on the territory of the Chutove Vocational School № 55.

The museum has 5,700 exhibits. After the reconstruction, the ethnographic exposition "Ukrainian Room" again conducts lectures on ethnography, in particular on Ukrainian folk customs and rites.

The building of the Myrhorod City Council in the center of the city was built in 1912. Architecture in the Art Nouveau style.

Currently, the Myrhorod District State Administration is located in the City Council building.

The central square of the Poltava is a Round, in the center of which is the Corps Garden with the Glory Monument in honor of the 100th anniversary of the victory over the Swedes near Poltava (1806-1811, architect Zhan-Fransua Toma de Tomon, sculptor Feodosiy Shchedrin). According to legend, Petro I met the defenders of the city at this place.

Administrative buildings were built around the square in 1809-1811: The present places (now - the City Council), the Noble Assembly (now - the Ivan Kotlyarevsky cinema), the House of the Governor-General (now - the Council of Trade Unions), the Malorosiyskyi Post Office (now - the Poltava School of Arts) , Petrivsky Cadet Corps (until recently (Higher Anti-Aircraft Missile School) and others. A modern shopping complex was built in the underground part.

The Round Square in Poltava is a popular place for city dwellers to walk.

The Literary and Memorial Museum of David Guramishvili tells about the life and work of the great Georgian poet of the 18th century.

The classic of Georgian literature, who lived in Myrhorod for the last 32 years of his life, wrote about contemporary Georgia, Ukraine and, of course, Myrhorod region.

Guramishvili wrote his famous works on Ukrainian soil: many of them merged Georgian and Ukrainian landscapes, alternated poems based on Ukrainian and Russian songs. His poems were widely translated into Russian (Mykola Zabolotsky and others) and Ukrainian (Mykola Bazhan).

Guramishvili died in 1792 and was buried in the Myrhorod Ascension Church. In 1949, a monument was erected on the poet's grave.

The museum presents editions of the poet's works and books about him, Georgian and Ukrainian items of folk life of the past centuries, samples of 18th century weapons, works of fine and decorative and applied art, products of local craftsmen, Georgian souvenirs, etc.

Dibrivka Horse Farm No. 62 in the village of Dibrivka, Myrhorod region, was founded in 1888 by Grand Duke Dmytro Romanov, and since then has been one of the leading stud farms that breed trotting horses.

The Dibrivka type of the Oryol trotter is now considered the standard harness horse both in Ukraine and in Russia. A complex of residential and industrial premises of the 19th century has been preserved. There is a wide area for training and walking horses in nature, it is also possible to learn riding in an indoor arena.

At the Dibrivka Horse Farm, you can buy thoroughbred horses of various ages of trotting and new-Oleksandrian heavy-carrying breeds. In addition, there is a workshop for the production of koumiss on the basis of the plant.

Excursions are conducted. There is a museum.

The literary and memorial museum of the Drahomanov`s family was created in 1991 in the city Hadiach, where the outstanding Ukrainian public figure Mykhaylo Drahomanov was born, as well as his sister, the famous writer Olena Pchilka, the mother of the poetess Lesya Ukrayinka.

The exhibition includes 170 exhibits that reveal the fascinating period of the Drahomanovs life and work.

The most interesting exhibits: the "Egyptian woman" statuette, which Lesya Ukrayinka brought from her trip to Egypt; Scythian amphora of the III-II centuries BC; handmade oak furniture set of the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th century. .

Ecopark "Kovalivka" near Poltava is one of the largest contact zoos in Ukraine. On an area of 120 hectares, more than 5,000 animals of 530 species are kept here, which can be observed, and some can also be fed and petted.

Many species of predators are represented in the ecopark, including tigers, lynxes, panthers, red wolves, servals, caracals, ocelots and others. Lemurs, monkeys, a family of tapirs, tree porcupines, iguanas, and turtles live in the enclosures. Among the ungulates in the contact part of the zoo, llamas and alpacas receive the most attention from visitors. You can also feed raccoons with special feed purchased on the territory of the park.

The pride of the ecopark "Kovalivka" is the residence of birds, the area of which is about 900 square meters. Here you can see flamingos, cockatoos, cranes and many other birds.

A steam locomotive runs through the territory of the ecopark. There are cozy gazebos where you can have lunch.

The Poltava Educational House named after Mykola Hohol was built in 1901 according to the project of academician Oleksiy Trambytskyi, the St. Petersburg architect of the Directorate of Imperial Theaters.

The theater building is made in the Neo-Renaissance style. Rectangular in plan, the audience hall for 1,100 seats with balconies and boxes, an orchestra pit and a compact stage box resembled in miniature the stage of the famous Milanese theater La Scala.

During the Second World War, the theater was destroyed, in the post-war years it was restored to its original architectural form and adapted to the "Wizoria Kolos" cinema (now a 3D cinema).

Ethnographic collection "Drevo" is a museum of antiquities in the village of Kozubivka in the Poltava region, founded in the old parent's house of Poltava ethnographer Eduard Kutko. Five generations of his family grew up here.

The authentic village house has been restored, its original interiors have been restored, old furniture and household items reflecting the life of a traditional Poltava village are presented.

The museum collection includes more than 2,000 exhibits and items of intangible cultural heritage: embroidery, towels, carpets, paintings, icons, as well as recordings of ancient songs. Most of the exhibits date back to the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

In addition to excursions, the museum offers a master class on making necklaces from Oleksandra Gerasymova, tastings of craft wines from local winemaker Vladyslav Oliinyk, and dinners with traditional Poltava dishes. On the territory there is a garden, a gazebo, a swing.

The Exaltation of the Cross Monastery in Poltava was founded in 1650 on the banks of the Vorskla River at the expense of Colonel Martyn Pushkar, a Poltava elder and burghers.

The Cathedral of the Ascension of the Cross (1699-1709) is the only seven-headed baroque church in Ukraine that has survived to this day. The four-story belfry (1786) in the late Baroque style is 43 meters high. The complex also includes the single-domed Trinity Church (1750) and the Simeon Church (1887).

During the war with the Swedes, there was a pond of Karl XII.

In the first half of the 20th century, the monastery was closed and ransacked, the premises were used by the NKVD as a prison for minors, then as a boarding school.

The complex of the Exaltation of the Cross Monastery was returned to the church in 1991.

The monument to the Swedish soldiers who died during the Battle of Poltava was opened in 1909 at the initiative of the Russian public in recognition of the bravery and courage of the soldiers of the army of Charles XII.

A memorial cross on a granite pyramid was installed at the place where the right flank of the Swedish army was located in the second stage of the battle. The height of the monument is about 9 meters. The inscription on the bronze plaque reads: "Eternal memory of the brave Swedish soldiers who died in the battle near Poltava on June 27, 1709."

According to various estimates, the losses of the Swedish army in the Battle of Poltava ranged from 6,000 to 7,000 people. Most of the dead were hastily buried in trenches and ravines.

The monument to the Swedes from the Russians is located right next to the highway at the entrance to Poltava from the Okhtyrka side.

The monument of Cossack glory in Poltava was opened in 1994. Dedicated to the Ukrainian Cossacks who died during the Battle of Poltava.

The authors of the project are sculptor Volodymyr Bilous, artist Viktor Baturin.

A huge Cossack cross with the laconic inscription "To Ukrainian fallen Cossacks" is placed on a massive granite base. At the foot of the symbolic mound - two bunchuks.

The "Monument to Colonel Kelin and the Valiant Defenders of Poltava" was erected in 1909 on the site of the Masurian Gate of the Poltava Fortress in memory of the city's defense on the eve of the Battle of Poltava in 1709.

For 3 months, the fortress withstood the siege of the Swedish army of Charles XII before the approach of the main forces of the Russian Peter I. The defense was led by the commandant of the Poltava fortress, Colonel Oleksiy Kelin, who received the rank of major general for this.

The monument to the defenders of Poltava by the sculptor-animalist Artemiy Ober was erected for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava. The monument is a granite obelisk on a pedestal on which a bronze figure of a lion is located. Previously, the obelisk was crowned with an imperial double-headed eagle.