Attractions of Poltava region

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 spectacular Holy Trinity Church in the late Baroque style was built in Dykanka on the site of an old wooden church.

It is located on the shore of a pond near the intersection of Ivana Mazepy Street and Troitska Street.

Construction was carried out in 1780 under the direction of the architect Mykola Lviv at the expense of Pavlo Kochubey of the Poltava Regiment of Bunchuzh. The temple is high, single-domed, with four semi-domes. It has the shape of a cross in plan. The floor was once paved with cast-iron tiles.

Legends closely associate the Trinity Church with the work of Mykola Hohol, who visited it many times. It is believed that this church was painted by the blacksmith Vakula in "The Night before Christmas": "...on the side wall, as you enter the church, Vakula painted a devil in hell, so disgusting that everyone spat when they passed by."

During the Soviet era, the temple was closed and looted, for some time it was used as a warehouse.

In 1993, the Trinity Church was restored and returned to the Orthodox Church.

The Holy Trinity Church in Lubny is located in the building of the former dormitory of the medical school in Nyzhniy Val, although until 1961 it was the central and largest church of the city.

The wooden Trinity Church was first mentioned in 1622. It stood until 1869, when a white stone five-domed temple was erected in place of the old temple, which beautified and ennobled the central square of the city.

In 1960, under the pretext of clearing the site for the construction of a hotel, the Trinity Church was moved to an unsuitable building on the outskirts of the city, and the church in the city center was blown up.

Today, the church has been rebuilt in classical Orthodox forms.

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 local lore museum of Horishni Plavni has been operating since 2000. The exposition tells about the history of construction of the city of Horishni Plavni and the local mining and processing plant, as well as about the ancient history of the region.

Paleontological and archeological collections are exhibited. The ethnographic exposition "Ukrainian House" recreates the interior of a rural house. The lecture hall contains a mineralogical collection and an art gallery.

The "Shrine" exposition in the courtyard of the Museum of Local Lore presents a collection of "stone chests" - burial structures of archeological culture of the Eneolithic period, found during archeological excavations of local mounds, as well as anthropomorphic or amorphous gravestones and over-mound hewn slabs.

The Family Museum of the Hrebinka Brothers in the village of Maryanivka was opened in 2018 during the cultural festival "Hrebinka Evenings". The exhibition is located in the premises of the Maryanivka village culture center.

It was in Maryanivka, which in the 19th century was called Hlybokyi Yar, that the outstanding Ukrainian writer-biker Yevhen Hrebinka (1812) and his brother, architect Mykola Hrebinka (1819) were born. Only a crypt and an old chestnut tree remained from the Hrebinka family estate, a monument was erected at the burial place of Yevhen Hrebinka.

The museum presents materials about the life and creative path of prominent compatriots. In particular, you can see a reproduction of the portrait of Yevhen Hrebinka, painted by Taras Shevchenko, and other exhibits that tell about Shevchenko's stay in the Hrebinka family.

Hrebinka City Local Lore Museum was opened in 1967. It is located in two rooms on the first floor of the Hrebinka Municipal Culture House in the center of the Hrebinka city.

The exposition consists of five sections: "People's life", "Hrebinka - the city of railway workers", "The combat glory of the Hrebinka region", "Outstanding compatriots", "Hrebinka's Room". Household items of Ukrainian peasants and ancient tools of rural work are widely represented, in particular, an ox harness dating from the 19th century, a horse collar from the beginning of the 20th century, horseshoes, etc. Among the rarities are the textbooks "Grammar of the Latin Language" (1826) and "Basic Fundamentals of Differential Calculus" (1822), special editions of the newspaper "Russkoye Slovo" devoted to the beginning of the First World War.

In 2023, the exhibition "Ukrainian house rich in goodness" was opened in the Hrebinka City Local Lore Museum, the main goal of which is to revive the customs and traditions of the Ukrainian people.

There is a separate museum "Hrebinka's Room", dedicated to the figure of the Ukrainian writer Yevhen Hrebinka, who was born in the village of Maryanivka not far from the city of Hrebinka, where the Family Museum of the Hrebinka Brothers is opened.

The Chornukhy Literary and Memorial Museum-Manor of Hryhoriy Skovoroda is located in the homeland of the outstanding Ukrainian philosopher, educator and poet - in the village of Chornukhy in the Poltava region.

The museum complex includes the museum of Hryhoriy Skovoroda, the "Garden of Divine Songs" and the memorial estate of Hryhoriy Skovoroda's parents - the small-landed Cossack Savva Skovoroda and his wife Pelaheya. In 1722, their son Hryhoriy was born here - a future poet, philosopher and educator. In 1734, he left Chornukh to study at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, from where he went to St. Petersburg, and then on a long journey through European countries. He returned to his homeland in 1750, but did not find his parents alive.

In the center of the manor is a hut under a thatched roof, where items of rural life of the 18th-19th centuries are presented. A large exposition is devoted to the life and work of the philosopher.

The Literary and Memorial Museum of Ivan Kotlyarevsky was created in Poltava in 1969 based on the estate of the outstanding writer, recreated according to a drawing by Taras Shevchenko, made from nature in 1845. There is a house, a barn and a well-crane, which are immersed in the green garden.

Kotlyarevsky lived in Poltava most of his life. He studied at the Poltava Theological Seminary, later was the director of the Poltava Theater, and was even a member of the Poltava Masonic Lodge.

In his Poltava house, the classic of Ukrainian literature created most of his works, including the famous "Aeneid".

Details of the old building have been installed in the house restored to the 200th anniversary of the writer's birth. Inside, the atmosphere of the XIX century is very authentically recreated. Here are stored personal belongings of the writer, awards, manuscript pages of his works, the first editions of books.

A monument to Hetman of Ukraine Ivan Mazepa was erected in Poltava in 2016 in front of the Assumption Cathedral, built at his expense.

This is the first full-length monument to Mazepa (busts were previously installed in Mazepintsy and Chernihiv). The 3.2-meter-high bronze sculpture was made by the sculptor Mykola Bilyk back in 2009, but the opening of the monument was preceded by a long public debate about its expediency, since Russian and Soviet propaganda for a long time formed a negative image of the hetman, who sought to remove Ukraine from the political influence of Muscovy.

A key episode of the Northern War of 1709 is connected with Poltava, when the troops of the Moscow Tsar Peter I defeated the army of the Swedish King Charles XII and his ally Ivan Mazepa. This event is immortalized by many monuments in the city, but almost all of them are dedicated to Russians and Swedes.

Funds for the installation of a monument to the Ukrainian hetman were collected by the public.

The Local Lore Museum in the village of Vovchyk in the Poltava region is named after its founder, local teacher and local historian Ivan Sayenko. It was on his initiative that the museum began to form back in 1948 on the basis of a local lore club at the Vovchyk school.

Since 1980, the Vovchyk Local Lore Museum has been located in ten halls of a specially built two-story building. The exhibition tells about the nature of the Poltava region, the foundation and ancient past of the village, its development in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the period of collectivization and the Holodomor, the events of World War II, etc.

In the art gallery you can see works of painting by Ukrainian artists and examples of folk art: embroidery, ceramics, artistic weaving.

The monument to Ivan Zubkovsky, the founder of the Myrhorod resort, was opened in 1998 for the 150th anniversary of his birth.

Doctor and public figure Ivan Zubkovsky researched and proved the healing value of Myrhorod mineral water, thanks to which in 1917 the first water hospital with 5 baths was opened in Myrhorod.

The monument to the work of the architect Serhiy Ruskykh and the artist Mykola Tsys is a bas-relief with the inscription: "To the founder of the Myrhorod resort, the zemstvo doctor, a public figure from grateful countrymen."

Ivanova Hill (Ivanova Hora) is the historical core of Poltava, the best scenic spot in the city. More than 11 centuries ago, the historic city of Ltava stood here on a high hill above the Vorskla River.

Later, an earthen Poltava fortress was built, which in the 18th century held back the advance of the Swedes for three months, until the army of Petro I approached. The wooden Podil tower (one of 15) was reconstructed, next to which it is planned to restore the Sentinel bastion of the Poltava fortress.

The panorama of the Vorskla Valley with the Exaltation of the Cross Monastery on the nearby hill opens from the White Arbor.

In 2006, a monument to the Poltava halushka, celebrated by writers, was erected near the Ivan Kotlyarevskyi museum and the Lileya restaurant.

The Kalaidyntsi Local Lore Museum is a branch of the Ivan Sayenko Local Lore Museum of the village of Vovchyk. The institution was opened in 2002 on the initiative of local residents. The museum operates at the Kalaidyntsi Lyceum.

The first exhibition was the "Folklore Room". A whole creative group of teachers and students worked on its arrangement. Many exhibits were donated to the museum by residents of the village of Kalaidyntsi. In particular, a large collection of authentic embroidered towels is presented.

Other expositions: "From ancient times", "Bells of national memory", "Hall of military glory", "History of the school", "Spiritual treasures of our land". In 2017, an exposition dedicated to the defenders of Ukraine was opened.

The Kaplyntsivskyi Bridge over the Udai River on the southern edge of the village of Kaplyntsi in the Poltava region is considered the longest wooden bridge in Ukraine. Its length, according to various estimates, reaches from 230 to 240 meters (some sources indicate a length of 356 meters, presumably taking into account the earth dam).

According to legend, the first wooden bridge was built across the river at the end of the 19th century. In 1933-1934, a new crossing was built in Kaplyntsi to lay a direct road to Pyriatyn.

The bridge stands on oak piles, has 46 spans. About 600 oak logs were used for construction. On top of the longitudinal beams, oak beams were laid crosswise, which were sheathed with oak boards. Initially, the bridge had a wooden railing.

Now the Kaplyntsivskyi Bridge is part of the "Zaplavnyi Udai" eco-tourist route, laid through the picturesque surroundings of the city of Pyriatyn and nearby villages on the territory of the Pyriatynskyi National Nature Park. It is a popular tourist location due to its beautiful scenery and the opportunity to take interesting photos.