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Poltava
Significant center of national culture of Central Ukraine. There was, presumably, the IX-X centuries. First mentioned as a locality Ltava in Ipatievskoy chronicles in 1173 in the XV century. Lithuanian Grand Duke of Vitovt conveyed to the city book. Glinskomu, in 1646 he captured the Ya Vishnevetsky, during the War of 1648-54 biennium. the city became the center of Poltava Regiment. During the Northern War between Russia and Sweden, the Swedish army led by Charles XII came to Poltava. This same Peter I arrived with the main forces of the Russian troops. June 27, has been a general battle - the Battle of Poltava. Swedish King and his ally of Ukrainian Hetman Ivan Mazepa lost. At the beginning of the XIX century. accounted for reconstruction of the city in the Russian imperial style, building the historic center is largely preserved. Here was born the classic of Ukrainian literature I. Kotlyarevsky, studied N. Gogol, visited Shevchenko, lived and was buried P. peace.
Round Square, the central area of the city. Middle - Cabinet garden with a monument of Glory (1811) in honor of the 100 anniversary of the victory of Poltava. In the 1804-11 biennium. around the square built office buildings: Prisutstvennye place (now - Gorsovet st. Zhovtneva, 36), the Noble Assembly (now - cinema them. Kotlyarevskogo st. Zhovtneva, 31), House of the Governor-General (now - the Council of Trade Unions, st. Zhovtneva , 37), Malorossiysky Post Office (now - Poltava School of the Arts, st. Zhovtneva, 35), Peter's cadet corps (until recently - Higher surface-to-air missile college, st. Zhovtneva, 42), etc.
Assumption Cathedral (1774-1801 biennium.) Sq. Cathedral (byv. Red), 3. The first stone structure in Poltava were destroyed in the 1930's. Of the original buildings remained bell-high 44 m. In the past century was hanging bell "Kesey-Kermen", cast from the Turkish guns at the end of the XVIII century. (now in the museum of local lore). In 1992 he transferred UAPTS, a reconstruction.
Savior Church (1705-1845 biennium.) St. ZHovtneva, 10. The only piece of wooden architecture in the XVIII. in Poltava region.
Krestovozdvizhensky Monastery (XVII-XIX centuries). Str. Sverdlov, 3. Founded in 1650 on the shore of the river. Vorskla. Krestovozdvizhensky Cathedral (1699-1709 biennium.) - The only one in Ukraine semiglavaya church in the Baroque style, which survived to the present day, four-bell (1786) in late Baroque style, height of 43 m; odnokupolnaya Trinity Church (1750); Semyonovskaya Church (1887). Set back to the church in 1991
The building of the province zemstva (1903-08 biennium.) St. Constitution (byv. Square. Lenin), 2. Built in Art Nouveau architect. B. Krichevskim, interior painting fine art. Vasilkovskaya and Samokisha. The facade is adorned with the coats of arms of county-level cities in the province. Now - National History Museum.
The Institute of noble virgins (1832), etc. Pervomaysky, 24. In the XIX century. here worked P.Gulak-Artemovsky, L. Borovikovsky, P. Bodyansky and others now - Poltava National Technical University.
Nobility and peasants Bank (1906-09 biennium.) St. ZHovtneva, 39. Built on the project architect. Kobeleva in Art Nouveau style. Now - regional management SBU.
Bogodelnya (1820), st. Shevchenko, 23. Now - Medical Academy.
Manor I. Kotlyarevskogo, Pl. Cathedral (byv. Red). Located on Mount Ivanova, bell tower of the Assumption Cathedral. This writer has created most of his works, in particular, the famous "Eneidu." The house rebuilt in 1969 after the drawing Shevchenko made to life in 1845
Museum of the Battle of Poltava, st. Swedish Tomb, 34 (suburb Yakovtsy). Founded in 1909 in the field of battle near, Poltava mass grave of Russian soldiers. More than eight thousand exhibits: works of art, weapons, decorations, banners, uniforms and equipment of Russian and Swedish armies, the personal belongings of Peter I and his associates. A diorama ozvuchennaya Poltava battle. Next - a monument to Peter I, cross at a mass grave of Swedish soldiers monument Swedes from the Russians.
Other attractions associated with the Battle of Poltava: The place of Peter I (str Spassky), glorious defenders of Poltava (Pervomaysky etc.), the Ukrainian Cossacks (bul. Panyansky) Nepokorennym poltavchanam (str Kotlyarevskogo).
Monument Poltava dumplings (2006), pl. Cathedral. Installed near the museum I. Kotlyarevskogo, vospevshego Ukrainian national cuisine in the poem "Eneida."
Kremenchug
The city on the banks of the Dnieper two connected dvuhyarusnym road-rail bridge (1872-1949 biennium.). Known in 1571 as a wooden fortress on the granite spur of the Dnieper River, in the XVIII century. has become a center of shipbuilding. Most of the historic buildings destroyed during the Second World War. In the Right of the city (byv. city Kryukov) survived Assumption Church Bozhey Mother (1877), next to the school (1897), a merchant house Churkin on the street. Prikhodko (1903), some other secular buildings XIX-XX centuries. In the left-bank part - Nikolskaya Church in 1910 (byv. Church) Street. Pushkin, the State Bank building (1903) on the street. Victory. Near the river station - geological monument granite bench mark, the Alpine Garden Hill with sculptures of fairy-tale characters. Works History Museum (str Zhovtneva, 2).
Birch Rudka
Village of Piryatinskogo district, belonged to Skoropadskim, then Zakrevskim. In the XIX century. Park founded and built two Zakrevskih palace, which has stayed Shevchenko (now owned by Agriculture University). At the heart of the village remained unique vault Zakrevskih in the form of an Egyptian pyramid (1899).
Velyki Sorochintsy
Village of Mirgorodskom area on the river Psel. In the XVII-XVIII centuries. - Residence getmana D. Apostle. Getmanskaya preserved shrine - the Savior Transfiguration Church (1732) with a unique carved iconostasis, which was baptized Nikolai Gogol. The village - a monument and museum Gogol. Each year, over the last weekend of August is taking place famous Sorochinskiy fair, which together traders from all over Ukraine.
Gogoleva
Village of Shishakskom district does not, the birthplace of the writer Gogol. We know from the XVIII century. as Vasilivka, then farm Kupchinsky. In the XIX century. renamed Yanovschinu by the name of the owner of VA-Janowski Gogol. I have writer's childhood. By the 175 th anniversary of his birth in the village a museum-reserve, which includes the chateau Gogoley-Janowski: house, outhouse, pavilion, grotto, a park, two pond. Among the exhibits - about the life and creative ways of Gogol, his personal items, first editions of his works. At the reserve graves of the parents writer Nikolai Gogol monument.
Dikanka
The settlement of urban type in the district. Vorskla famous thanks to the product of Gogol "Evenings at the farm near Dikanki." On the XVII century. here it is Kochubeev estate (now - landscape park), the most famous of which was a favorite of Alexander I, the first Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia Earl VP Kochubey. Preserved Arch of Triumph (XVIII) in honor of the arrival of King Alexander I; Trinity Church (XVIII century). Which, as Gogol describes in "Night Before Christmas", paint a blacksmith Vakula; Nicholas Church (XVIII century). With the underground crypt generic Kochubeev ( According to legend, here otpevali Pannochku from "Vija"), four 800-year-old oak Kochubeya of oak alley at the entrance to the estate; underground cell in the XVII. 8 out of the caves in the 5 kilometers from Dikanki.
Kozelshchina
Poltava and the district center of Kremenchug, owned by noblemen Kozelskim, then columns Kapnist. In 1886 founded nunnery Nativity of the Virgin. Grand Cathedral Nativity of the Virgin (1906) erected at the place of the first temple, visited the construction of Emperor Nicholas II. There painting M. Murashko, iconostasis. The main sanctuary - Kozelschinskaya miraculous icon of the Mother of God, brought from Italy in the XVIII century. In neighboring with. Prilipka hill Shar mountain town is letopisnogo city Goltva (XIII century). On the ground which XVI-XVIII centuries. there Cossack fortress city Govtva (preserved shafts). As with. Top Manuylovka - museum of Gorky, who was here for treatment in 1897 and 1900 estimates. As with. Knishevka around with. Sands - Salt Lake in medicinal water.
Kotelva
District center of the river. Vorskla. Preserved Trinity Church (1812), Park. In neighboring with. Belsk is the largest in Eastern Europe Scythian Belskoe hill (VII-III centuries BC.) Described as a Herodotus capital of the Scythians Gelon. There enormous shafts of four fortifications total length of 34 km, east reconstructed strengthening, running an open-air museum. A number - 500-year-old oak Pans.
Lubni
One of the oldest settlements Poltavschiny, founded Kievan Prince Vladimir in 988 Svyatoslavichem city as a fortress on the river. Sula. In 1591 the city received Magdeburg Law, was in possession Vishnivetskih in 1658 - regimental city, flowering took place in the XVIII century. There is a temple Nativity of the Virgin, Church of All Saints in the Upper Valu, house the Diocesan School in 1907 (now the school number 10), Zemskaya Hospital (1913-15 biennium.) Park overlooking the river. Sula, a monument to the 1000 anniversary of Luben (1988). Works History Museum (str Lenin, 35/25). Nearby - Mgarsky Monastery (1619) with the Transfiguration Cathedral (1684-92gg.), Which merged staroukrainskaya architecture XI-XII centuries with barokkovo-Renaissance architecture of Western Europe: Belfry (1785) in the Baroque style; Warm Church (XIX century). Psevdovizantiyskom in style; balances nastoyatelskogo shell; keleyny in XVIII Corps.; Skitskaya ST. Athanasius (now the Annunciation), part of the fence. In Soviet times here deployed a disciplinary battalion, warehouses, then pioneer camp. Returned to the church in 1993
Mirgorod
The city is famous as the SPA resort on the river. Khorol. Known to the XVI century. Preserved Spasopreobrazhenskaya Church (1732) in the Ukrainian Baroque style. Monuments Shevchenko, Nikolai Gogol, David Guramishvili (Georgian poet in the XVIII., Who dwelt and worked in Mirgorode), National History Museum (str Independence 2). In the central part is located spa area with spa, using therapeutic properties of mineral water "Mirgorodska."
Oposhnya
The capital of Ukrainian pottery, is located 45 km from Poltava, the highway Poltava-Gadyach. The heyday came in the XVIII century. When there were 200 artisans. Ceramic products on display at the World Exhibition, they have become the best museums of the world. The settlement - National Museum-Reserve Ukrainian pottery.
Pisky
Transit town on the route Kiev-Poltava, a business card which is rich in high-fitted water tower on the roadside. It was filmed cult Soviet film "The Queen of gas." The focus remained Cathedral Nativity of the Virgin (1781) in the Baroque style.
Chornukhi
In the district center 38 km from Piryatin, Homeland G. Pans. In written sources mention in 1261 preserved earthwork (the so-called "forest hill). Since 1647 owned by tycoon Vishnivetski. In 1722, was born here the great Ukrainian poet and philosopher G. pan. In 1972, he reconstructed barton parents Pans, operates Museum of Local History.
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