Attractions of Poltava region

The Hradyzk roadside fish market spontaneously formed opposite the bus station of the Hradyzk village on the N-08 Kyiv-Dnipro highway thanks to the developed fishing industry in the Kremenchuk Reservoir.

Fresh, dried, dried and smoked Dnipro fish are sold at the Hradyzk market: zander, bream, catfish, pike and others.

The monument to the grandmother selling seeds "by the glass" was opened in Horishni Plavni in 2006.

The sculpture is placed on the central street of the city, where street trade has been conducted for more than 30 years, despite the efforts of the city authorities and inspection services. Under the stool in the seed seller, there is also a check for regular customers.

Local merchants invented an omen in connection with the opening of the monument: if you sit next to it before sunrise, you will be successful in trade all day long.

The granite rock on the banks of the Dnipro in Kremenchuk is a geological monument of nature and an ancient geodetic mark.

Until the middle of the 20th century, it was used as a rapper - a sign fixing a point on the earth's surface, the height of which in relation to the original leveled surface was determined by leveling.

The rock is an outcrop of gray biotite-plagioclase magmatites 2.5-3 billion years old. It is also called a granite register.

On the rock, which rises 5-6 meters above the river level, there are marks of the highest water levels during floods on the Dnipro since the 18th century. These floods occurred in 1789, 1820, 1845, 1877, 1888, 1889, 1895, 1945.

Since 1970, the granite rapper has been a natural monument of local importance.

The Historical and Local Lore Museum of the city of Hadiach opened in 2012 in a specially built house of original architecture, which is located in the historical part of the city, not far from the place where the Drahomanov estate once stood. Before that, a district historical and local history museum had existed in Hadiach since 1951, but in the 1990s it was closed, and the exposition was disbanded.

The current exhibition has about 2 thousand exhibits that tell about the history of the region, prominent figures whose lives and work are connected with Hadiachchyna. In particular, a large ethnographic collection is presented. The historical section tells about the times of the Hetmanate, about the founding and development of the city from ancient times to the present day.

The room "Berehynias of the Drahomanov Family" is dedicated to Larysa Petrivna and Olha Petrivna Kosach and highlights the history of the Drahomanov-Kosach family. Among the exhibits are original furniture from the living room of the Drahomanov house, Lesya Ukrayinka's own embroidery and the "Egyptian Woman" statuette brought by the writer from Egypt.

Next to the museum is an ethno-courtyard with a stylized village barn, which is used as an ethnographic photo location. In the museum shop you can purchase various souvenirs, as well as craft-made honey and gingerbread cookies.

The exposition of the Dykanka State Historical and Local Lore Museum named after Dmytro Harmash is located in 9 halls and has 8,000 exhibits.

Among them is a handmade chest of Kochubey, decorated with a bizarre pattern, and which served as a treasury in the Trinity Church. Chest in the XVIII century. presented to Judge Kochubey Hetman Ivan Mazepa, but the legend attributes the masterful work on it to the blacksmith Vakula, Hohol's hero from "The Night Before Christmas".

You can see the Polovtsian woman, an old locomotive (steam tractor), Mykola Hohol's posthumous mask. Also presented are valuable finds from Scythian burials, household items, works of art by local masters.

Souvenir products are sold.

Employees of the Museum of Local Lore conduct tours of Dykanka.

The People's Museum of History of the Poltava Polytechnic named after Yuriy Kondratyuk is dedicated to the creation and development of one of the oldest universities in the Poltava region, which was founded in 1930.

The university is located in the former building of the Poltava Institute of Noble Girls.

The exposition of the museum has 10 sections, where more than a thousand exhibits are presented, which acquaint visitors with the stages of development and traditions of the Poltava Polytechnic staff. In particular, you can see a clock from the house of the famous Poltava inventor Yuriy Kondratyuk, whose name is the university.

A separate exposition is occupied by models of the university building, stands with scientific achievements, awards of the former Poltava Civil Engineering Institute, which for a long time was transformed from a single-profile institution of higher education into a classical European university.

The Church of the Ascension of the Lord on the territory of the current residential area of Polovka in Poltava (the former village of Pushkarivka) was built in 1762 at the expense of Poltava colonel Ivan Chernyak as the cathedral church of the Pushkarivsky Ascension Monastery, founded here in 1721.

According to some sources, Motrya Kochubey, the daughter of General Judge Vasyl Kochubey, executed by Hetman Ivan Mazepa, spent the last years of her life here in a monastery (until the 30s of the 20th century, there was a grave of Motrya in the monastery cemetery).

At the beginning of the 19th century, the monastery was closed, and the Ascension Church acquired the status of a parish. All the monastery buildings fell into disrepair and were dismantled. Currently, the Church of the Ascension is an active church of the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Holy Assumption Cathedral on the Ivanova Mountain is the first stone spore in Poltava.

Promoted in 1751-1770 by the initiatives of Colonel Andriy Horlenok at the wooden church, which, since 1695, stood on Vichevy Maidan of Poltava Fortress.

The temple in the style of the Byzantine basilica was designed by the architect Stefan Stabansky. In 1780, two more domes were added to three domes. In 1900, the cathedral underwent one reconstruction, and as a result, it became spacious and bright. On a door with a height of 44 meters, the wall of the door "Kizi-Kermen" is visible from Turkish garmats, for example, of the XVIII century (now at the Local Lore Museum).

In 1934, the Cathedral was demolished by the Bolsheviks, but the door was miraculously preserved. In 1999-2007, at the initiative of the President of Ukraine, the cathedral was reconstructed and turned into the bulk of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

The Assumption Cathedral in Hadiach was founded in 1831 at the expense of the merchant Ivan Marulyev.

In 1934, the church was closed by the Bolsheviks, and after the Second World War it was dismantled for building materials.

Restored in 1998 at the former place in its original form. It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Holy Assumption Cathedral in Khorol was founded in 1802 at the expense of the merchant Chebotaryov.

Destroyed by the Bolsheviks in 1934. The revival began in 2002. Now the temple has been rebuilt. It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Holy Dormition Cathedral in Myrhorod is the oldest religious building in the city.

It was built in 1887 on the site of a wooden temple founded in 1648 by the Cossack colonel Matviy Hladky. The temple in the style of classicism was painted by students of Viktor Vasnetsov.

The altar part was decorated with a unique ceramic iconostasis made at the Myrhorod School of Arts and Crafts (now the Myrhorod Ceramic Technical College) - its fragment is exhibited in the technical College museum.

During Soviet times, the Dormition Church was closed, and it fell into disrepair over the years.

In 1998, the cathedral was reconstructed, a belfry was built, and bells were installed (their ringing is considered therapeutic). Now the interior is decorated with modern paintings by Volodymyr Tkachenko.

The Holy Intercession Church in Kamyani Potoky has been known since 1692. Then it was made of wood and soon burned down during a thunderstorm.

Probably, since those times, the church was rebuilt several times, and was finally dismantled only at the beginning of the 20th century. The construction of the brick temple of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin was completed in 1913. At that time, the temple was the largest in the district.

Now the temple is active.

The Church of the Holy Intercession in the village of Plishyvets in the Poltava region is considered one of the most multi-domed in Ukraine.

Before her, there was an ordinary three-headed wooden temple in Plishyvets, but by the end of the 19th century it had completely fallen into disrepair. For help in building a new church, local residents turned to their countryman, the rector of the moscow seminary, Archimandrite Parthenius, who managed to raise funds for the construction of a large stone church.

At the bishop's request, the famous architect Oleksandr Kuznetsov created a project of the church in the Cossack Baroque style - a copy of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Samar. The nine-headed Church of the Intercession of the Holy Virgin, 45 meters high, is made in the shape of a cross.

The gilded 6-tiered iconostasis about 10 meters high, made in a moscow icon-painting workshop, was lost during the Soviet era, the bell tower was blown up in 1934, but the church itself survived even after it was hit by 7 shells during the Second World War.

Currently, the Holy Intercession Church in Plishyvets belongs to the UOC of the moscow Patriarchate, and restoration is underway.

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 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.