Attractions of Poltava region

The monument to the writer Mykola Hohol in Poltava was erected in 1934, although it was created before the Bolshevik coup of 1917.

In 1913, the city public of Poltava began to collect funds for a monument to their outstanding compatriot, and 2 years later, the sculptor Leonid Posen handed over the sculpture made by him to the city. The sculptor depicted Hohol sitting in thought with a book in his hand.

The monument was planned to be erected on the square in front of the drama theater, but the First World War stood in the way of these plans. Under the Bolsheviks, they initially did not want to erect a monument for ideological reasons, since Hohol came from a noble family. Only in 1934, the monument took its current place on the boulevard part of Mykoly Hoholya Street.

The monument to Mykola Hohol in Velyki Sorochyntsi is one of the first monuments to the writer in Ukraine. It is also considered one of the best in the world.

The residents of Sorochyntsi decided to perpetuate the memory of a great compatriot in 1909, when they celebrated the centenary of his birth. The author of the monument project is St. Petersburg sculptor Illya Hintsburh.

The monument was inaugurated in 1911 near the house of doctor Mykhaylo Trochymovskyi, where Hohol was born in 1809. The bronze sculpture depicts a writer sitting in deep thought.

The Memorial Museum of Mykola Lysenko operates in his native village of Hrynky in Poltava region. It was here that the outstanding composer was born in 1842 in the family of a local landowner, Colonel Vitalii Lysenko. Here his mother Olha Lysenko gave her son his first music lessons.

A small museum exhibition is located in one of the rooms of the Hrynky Village Council building with original stained glass windows.

The museum exhibition tells about the life and work of Mykola Lysenko. Documents, photographs, as well as some original personal belongings of the Lysenko family from their former house in Hrynky are presented.

The memorial museum-estate of potter Mykola Poshyvailo was opened in 2025 in his native house in Opishnia on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the master's birth. The institution is a department of the National Museum-Reserve of Ukrainian Pottery.

Mykola Poshyvailo was born in 1930 into an artistic family of potters Havrylo and Yavdokha Poshyvailo. He inherited from his parents the Opishnia pottery traditions and love for the craft. For many years he worked as a creative master at the "Artistic Ceramics" factory. He received the title of Honored Master of Folk Art of Ukraine, was a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, a member of the National Union of Masters of Folk Art of Ukraine, and a laureate of the All-Ukrainian Literary and Artistic Prize named after Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky. In his later years, he conducted master classes for visitors to the reserve.

A space of memory has been created in the house of Mykola Poshyvaylo, in which not only things, ceramics and archives are preserved, but also the spirit of creativity itself. A large collection of the master's original works is presented.

Myrhorod Museum of Local Lore was organized on the initiative of the famous artist and ethnographer Opanas Slastion (Slastyon), who worked for a long time in Katerynoslav with the famous historian Dmytro Yavornytsky.

The exhibition presents a variety of materials about the history of Myrhorod. The museum is located on the site where in the XVII-XVIII centuries. was Myrhorod fortress. In memory of this, in 2007 a Square of Cossack Glory was opened in front of the museum building, a monument to the Myrhorod Cossacks and a Cossack cannon were erected - a memorial sign on the site of the Myrhorod Fortress (sculptor Dmytro Korshunov).

The museum is named after its founder - Myrhorod Museum of Local Lore named after Opanas Slastion.

The pond in the center of the city, next to the Assumption Church, was immortalized by Mykola Hohol as the "Myrhorod Puddle" in the story "How Ivan Ivanovych quarreled with Ivan Nykyforovych".

In 2009, to the 200th anniversary of the writer, a monument to Hohol, about three meters high, was opened on the embankment. It became the basis of a sculptural complex dedicated to the heroes of Gogol's works: Ivan Ivanovych with Ivan Nykyforovych, Khlestakov, the blacksmith Vakula and Oksana, the incomparable Solokha, Pot-bellied Patsyuk, the pig.

The People's Museum of the History of the Myrhorod Resort was opened in 1998 on the second floor of a separate building on the territory of the Khorol sanatorium.

The exhibition is dedicated to the history of the health resort and its founder, the zemstvo doctor Ivan Zubkovsky, who was the first to evaluate the healing properties of "Myrhorodska" mineral water back in 1914. This happened after, on the initiative of the city administration, drilling of an artesian well began in Myrhorod to provide the city with tap water. The brackish water from the spring was deemed unsuitable for drinking, but Zubkovsky sent samples for analysis, and it turned out that the chemical properties of the water are similar to the healing mineral waters of the springs of Baden-Baden and Aachen.

The museum exposition presents a model of the first Myrhorod water hospital, which opened in 1917 (the original building with the tower has not been preserved).

The Nadiia Bokoch Towel Museum in the village of Stepne bears the name of its founder. Local collector Nadiia Bokoch began collecting antique towels in the early 2000s. Her private collection became the basis of the museum, which opened in 2009 on the second floor of the local cultural center.

Currently, the exhibition features over 600 exhibits, most of which are embroidered towels collected from all districts of Poltava region, as well as from Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, Vinnytsia, Transcarpathia and other regions of Ukraine. All of them are hand-embroidered in different techniques and have patterns characteristic of their regions. Embroidered paintings, rural clothing and household items are also presented.

One of the exhibits is the "Peoples Friendship Towel", which Nadiya Bokoch embroidered herself, collecting in it samples of embroidery techniques from different parts of Ukraine at the same time.

The Nataliia Yuzefovych Art Gallery in Kremenchuk was founded in 2002 to exhibit the works of contemporary Ukrainian artists, primarily the outstanding Kremenchuk artist Nataliia Yuzefovych, whose name the gallery bears.

The artist Nataliia Yuzefovych was a master of lyrical landscapes, picturesque still lifes, unique portraits and subject paintings, one of the best colorists of her time. She lived in Kremenchuk for four decades, starting in 1971. She donated 167 of her best works to this city.

The gallery has three exhibition halls, two of which introduce visitors to Yuzefovych's work. Many of her works on display are dedicated to Kremenchuk, where she often painted in the Dnipro Park.

The gallery updates its exhibition three times a year, and also holds personal and collective exhibitions of artists, photographers, and masters of decorative and applied arts.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin Mary is the oldest preserved church in Lubny.

Built at the beginning of the 19th century, it was originally consecrated as the Brethren Church.

Nativity of Holy Virgin Church is located in the central part of the city. It belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin in Velyka Bahachka was built in 1710 at the expense of Andriy Stefanovych, a Bahachka centurion. A new iconostasis was installed in the church in 1738. In 1860, the church was placed on a stone plinth and a wooden bell tower was added. There was a school at the church, taught by deacon Lavrentiy Babichenko and palamar Taras Tkach.

During the Soviet rule, the Church of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin was destroyed in 1937. After Ukraine gained independence, the question of restoring the temple arose. At first, church services were held in the rented premises of the "Vesnyanka" factory. Later, a new church was built by the efforts of the parishioners.

The modern building of the church is a copy of the building of 1710 and the first service was held in 2001.

The majestic Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin in Kozelshchyna was built in 1906 on the site of the first church founded in 1882. Emperor Nicholas II visited the construction site.

Paintings by Oleksandr Murashko, iconostasis have been preserved. The main shrine is the miraculous Kozelshchyna icon of the Mother of God, which was brought from Italy in the 18th century by the Kozelsky nobles and inherited by the Counts of Kapnist. In 1880, after a fervent prayer near this icon, the seriously ill daughter of Count Volodymyr Kapnist Mariya, who could no longer be helped by doctors, was healed.

In 1886, the Nativity of the Virgin Convent was founded. After the construction of the new cathedral, a hotel for pilgrims, a hospital building, an icon-painting workshop, men's and women's schools, a brick factory, a waterworks, workshops and utility rooms were also built.

After 1917, the property of the monastery was nationalized, a theater was built in the cathedral.

Since 1992, the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin has been restored, the Kozelshchyna Nativity of the Virgin Convent has been revived.

The Nativity of Virgin Cathedral in Pyriatyn was built in 1781 by order of the regimental vassal Andriy Ilchenko.

The single-domed church in the Ukrainian Baroque style resembles traditional three-part wooden churches of that time. The walls are decorated with characteristic baroque moldings.

In the 19th century, the temple was rebuilt, but as a result of the restoration carried out in 1980, it returned to its authentic appearance.

Until 1990, the building housed a Local Lore Museum. Currently, the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin belongs to the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The Novi Sanzhary Local Lore Museum was founded in 1967 on the initiative of a local school teacher, Ivan Pylypenko. In 2016, an updated exhibition opened in the premises of the old Novi Sanzhary school, which was built in 1905.

Historical materials from the life of the village and the district were presented in the exhibitions "Nature", "Ethnography", "History", "World War II", "Art", "Culture".

Currently, the museum is closed.

The Local Lore Museum of the Novoavramivka village was established in May 1959 on a non-profit basis and became the first rural historical and local lore museum in the Poltava region. Its founder and director for many years was a local teacher and local historian Fedir Mohylenko.

Currently, the collection of the Novoavramivka Local Lore Museum has about 5,000 exhibits. The exhibitions tell about local history and culture, immersing visitors in the everyday life and traditions of past generations.

In particular, in the museum you can learn about the nature and distant past of the region, the originality of local culture, the events of the early 20th century and collectivization, the Second World War and post-war reconstruction, important events of modern times.

The Novoavramivskyi Local Lore Museum is a branch of the Khorol Local Lore Museum.