Attractions of Poltava region

The Ocheretuvate Local Lore Museum in Poltava region was founded in the 1970s by the famous local historian and writer Yevhen Butenko. In 1990, the museum received the title of peoples.

The exposition tells about the history of the village of Ocheretuvate, the culture and life of its inhabitants, the nature of this region.

The museum's collection includes about 35,000 exhibits. They are presented in the departments of history, nature, and military glory. The Ocheretuvate Local Lore Museum also has an art gallery, where about 70 works by local artists are exhibited.

The Museum of Hero of Ukraine Oleksandr Bilash was founded in 2004 in his native Hradyzk - in the premises of the Hradyzk Gymnasium, which bears the name of this outstanding Ukrainian composer. The initiator of the creation of the museum was the director of the educational institution Alla Salimon.

The exhibition presents items of Oleksandr Bilash's musical and literary heritage, which have historical and artistic value. In particular, the composer's daughter Olesia Bilash donated his personal belongings, awards, collections of poems, musical works, and gifts to the museum.

Currently, the museum has over 500 exhibits, which are placed in seven exhibition sections: "Childhood of Oleksandr Bilash", "Education of the future composer and poet", "Beginning of literary activity", "The flowering of creative talent and cooperation with outstanding figures of culture and art of Ukraine", "Poetic achievements", "Family roots and family of Oleksandr Bilash", "Last years of life".

In the courtyard of the gymnasium in 2012, a bust of Oleksandr Bilash was installed.

The memorial house-museum of the world-famous potter Oleksandra Seliuchenko in Opishnia tells about the life and creative path of the honored master of folk art of Ukraine, one of the most outstanding masters of traditional clay zoo- and anthropomorphic sculpture of small forms.

She was born in 1921 in a family of simple potters and lived all her life in Opishnia, only once leaving her native village for a while. Oleksandra Seliuchenko is considered an unsurpassed master of traditional Ukrainian clay toys.

In the museum, you can familiarize yourself with her works and the technology of making clay products at home.

An old potter's kiln used by a ceramist has been preserved in the courtyard of the manor.

The memorial museum-estate of the famous potter Oleksandra Seliuchenko in Opishna is a subdivision of the National Museum-Reserve of Ukrainian Pottery.

The Oles Honchar Literary and Memorial Museum-Estate in the village of Sukhe is located in a small peasant hut built in 1892 by the writer's grandfather, Havrylo Honchar. Here, little Oles lived and was raised from the age of three, after the death of his mother.

The exhibition in two rooms of the village house tells about the life and work of Oles Honchar. The central place is occupied by a desk that recreates the writer's work corner in his Kyiv apartment. The writer's personal belongings, his handwritten notebooks, letters and books preserved by his relatives are presented. Different stages of Honchar's life are illustrated by photos from the family album.

During the tour, visitors have the opportunity to hear the voice of Oles Honchar thanks to recordings from his family's audio library.

The Opishnia hydroelectric power station on the Vorskla River was built in 1958 in the village of Miski Mlyny, Opishnia settlement.

Operating hydroelectric power plant with a capacity of 225 kilowatts.

A good place for fishing and recreation.

The Orzhytsia Museum of History and Local Lore was established in 1974.

The exposition tells about nature and archeological finds in the region, the history of Orzhytsia from ancient times to the present, the traditional way of life of the local population.

The Poltava Literary and Memorial Museum of Panas Myrny is located on the outskirts of Poltava, at the end of the former Tretya Kobyshchanska Street.

It was here in 1903 that the writer bought a small one-story house, where he lived for the last 17 years of his life. He was visited by Lesya Ukrayinka and Olena Pchilka, Mykhaylo Kotsyubynsky and Vasyl Stefanyk, Mariya Zankovetska and Mykola Lysenko.

In 1940, a museum was opened in the estate. More than 150 manuscripts of Panas Myrny and his brother Ivan Bilyk, about 1,000 personal belongings of the writer's family, books, documents and photographs are collected in seven rooms. The writer's son Mykhaylo Rudchenko managed the museum for over 20 years.

In 1951, a monument to Panas Myrny was erected in the yard of the manor - a bronze bust of the writer on a labradorite pedestal.

In 1989, a literary exposition was opened in the new premises.

"Peace Park" (Park Myru) was established in Kremenchuk in 1983 on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the city from the German-fascist invaders.

The only Peace Gong in Ukraine - the Indonesian symbol of peace - has been installed on the territory of the park. There is also an open-air museum of military equipment and a parking lot, there are children's and sports grounds, and a chess club.

In 2012, a Sakura Avenue was planted in the park. In 2017, a memorial sign "To the Righteous of the World" was unveiled in Peace Park, on the territory of which more than 20,000 civilians were shot during the years of German-fascist occupation.

The observation deck of Peace Park offers a wonderful view of the central part of Kremenchuk.

The Peoples Museum "Musical Poltava Region" at the Poltava Professional College of Arts is named after its founder - Ukrainian conductor, teacher, composer and folklorist Mykhailo Fisun, who began forming the collection of the future museum in the early 1970s.

Currently, the exhibition is presented in three thematic halls: "History of the Poltava Music College named after Mykola Lysenko", "The Founder of Ukrainian Classical Music Mykola Lysenko and His Followers", "Musical Poltava Region".

Among the exhibits: photographs, documents, letters, printed and handwritten works of composers, souvenirs, ceramics, sculpture, minting, records. In particular, a collection of ritual songs with the personal seal of Mykola Lysenko, a collection of folk songs with the autograph of the Ukrainian writer Marko Vovchok, the score of the cantata "In Eternal Memory of Ivan Kotlyarevsky" with the autograph of Mykola Lysenko, etc.

Also in the museum you can learn about the life and fate of the most famous kobzars and lyrists of the Poltava region.

The former landowner's estate in Bilousivka was founded in the 19th century. Until 1845, the estate belonged to the landowner Stepan Petrovsky, whose son Petro studied at the St. Petersburg Academy together with Taras Shevchenko. The poet dedicated the poem "Topol" to his sister Paraskeva.

According to legend, Shevchenko visited Bilousivka during his trips to Ukraine in 1843-1845. Allegedly, he painted the picture "Night in Martosivshchyna" here.

The house is one-story, four-room. In front of the entrance is a veranda with a colonnade. The last owner of the estate was Andriy Anderson, the son-in-law (according to other sources, the adopted son) of the Bilousivka landowner Bebel. Currently, it is the Bilousivka secondary school.

The Pharmacy Museum in the village of Rashivka is the only such institution in the Poltava region. It was created in 2019 on the initiative of a local artist, researcher of the history of the village and public figure Yuliia Kobizka.

The museum's exposition is located in an old brick building of a former pharmacy in the center of Rashivka and tells about more than 130 years of work of the first medical and sanitary institution in the village, which opened in 1892.

In the sales hall with stucco molding in the village around the chandelier of the 19th century, and until recently, it was possible to purchase medicines. The second hall recreates the interior of an old pharmacy laboratory - an assistant's desk, equipment for washing and drying pharmacy utensils, cabinets for storing medicines, etc. are on display. The history room presents authentic pharmacy furniture, equipment and devices from the first half of the 20th century. Documents and old photographs tell about the development of pharmacy in Rashivka.

The sculpture of a plumber, looking waist-deep from a sewer hatch, is one of the new sights of Horishni Plavni.

The plumber is depicted with a wrench in his hand and, judging by the expression on his face, a little tipsy. A dog is sitting opposite him on the hatch cover.

The author of the monument is sculptor Oleh Ryabo.

The Poltava Art Museum is located in the new building of the Art Gallery (built in 1999; architect Yuriy Oliynyk).

The first art gallery in Poltava was started in 1919 by the Ukrainian archaeologist-scientist Mykhaylo Rudynskyi based on the collection of the itinerant artist Mykola Yaroshenko, which was presented to him. Among the 100 paintings were the works of Ivan Shishkin, Vasyl Polenov, Volodymyr Makovsky, Illya Repin, Vasyl Maksimov and others. The collection included artistic values from the nationalized estates of the Kochubeys (Dykanka), the Galagans (Sokyryntsi), the Kapnists (Obuhivka), and the Repnins (Yahotyn).

The collection of Western European paintings includes unique works by Giovanni Tiepolo, Peter Paul Rubens, Melchior de Hondecuter, Adrian van Ostade, Elizabeth Viget-Lebrun, Carl Peters and others.

For a long time, the Poltava Art Museum was located in the former mansion of the landowner Bolyubash (1912), but due to the state of emergency of the premises in 2000, it was forced to move to the current location.

The memorial sign to the Poltava halushka, installed next to the observation deck on Ivanova Hill, is considered one of the symbols of modern Poltava.

The authors of the monument are the artist Anatoliy Chornoshchokov and the sculptor Mykola Tsys. The opening of the monument in 2006 was dedicated to the birthday of the writer Mykola Hohol, who praised halushka in his works.

Initially, the monument was erected near the Holy Assumption Cathedral, but at the request of believers, it was later moved closer to the Lileya restaurant.

This place is popular with newlyweds and guests of the city. Every year in the first decade of June, the Poltava Halushka Festival is held near the monument.

Poltava Museum of Local Lore after Vasyl Krychevsky is located in the former building of the present places of the provincial zemstvo.

The building of the provincial zemstvo was built by the architect Vasyl Krychevsky in the Art Nouveau style with elements of the Ukrainian folk style (this fact caused dissatisfaction of Emperor Mykola II). The interior painting was made by prominent artists Serhiy Vasylkivsky and Mykola Samokysh. The facade is decorated with coats of arms of county towns of the province.

The foundation of the exposition of the local history museum in Poltava was laid in 1891 by the scientist Viktor Dokuchayev. Today there are more than 300,000 exhibits in 40 museum halls and vaults. Among the rarities - the ancient Egyptian collection, works of ancient and oriental art, Cossack relics.

The Poltava Local Lore Museum after Vasyl Krychevsky is temporarily closed for restoration.