Poltava

The monastery was founded in 1650 on the money of Poltava colonel Pushkar, Iskra, Kramarand other cossack chieftains and bourgeois of Poltava. It is located on the mountain which is named Monasterial since then, after the river Poltavka or Tarapunka, to north-east of the Poltava fortress.

The monastery was erected in honor of the victory of the Ukrainian cossacks over the Polish gentry. At first all the buildings were wooden. The first stone building - ...

The monument of cossack glory was opened in 1994 on the Panyansky boulevard. In such a way Poltavites gave the contribution to the glorious sons of native land, which gave the lives for Ukraine in old times. The authors of project are the sculptor V. Bilous and the artist V.Baturin. There is an enormous cossack cress on the top of the monument, a laconic inscription: "To Ukrainian lost cossacks". Near the foot of the symbolic ...

The building of the province zemstvo was erected in 1903-1908 on the project of V. Krichevsky with the using of projects of E. Shirshov and M. Nikolaev. This building became the standard of the Ukrainian architectural style. The coats of arms of province towns decorate the building and make it solemn. Two high towers with little loop-holes remind us of Poltava-fortress of 12-13th century. The students of Mirgorodsky ceramics school took part in its decoration. ...

The monument is the next to The church of the Savior. There was disposed the house of cossack Magdenka.The Commandant of fortress Kelin had lodged there during the siege of Poltava, in the same house «about three rooms with a kitchen and a bath-house» Peter I rested after the Poltava battle the following day. He was present at the prayer service of gratitude in the church of the Savior. The temporal Stella was erected at ...

The old Cathedral of the Transfiguration stood in this place and burned out at the fire. One of the versions says the church of the Savior was built anew as temporal in 1706 by the abbot I. Svitaylo with the assistant to the colonel Iskra. It was built from the material of taken apart the Monastery of the Exaltation of the Cross. The basic apartment is a rectangular tower composition which passes in to the ...

On the pointer of the cape of Gorodischa (now the Red Square) there was a basic dominant of the city - The Cathedral of Assumption. It was a wooden, multiframe, multistory building. Next to it there was a two-tier bell tower. In 1948 the stone Cathedral of Assumption was laid next o the wooden church. The Poltava colonel A. Gorlenko, the liner A. Runovskiy, the regimental judge G. Sahnovsky and others were its founders. The ...

The house of the well known Ukrainian writer Ivan Kotlyarevsky is the next to The Cathedral of Assumption. It was bought in 1751 by deacon of the Cathedral of Assumption (grandfather of Kotlyarevsky) Ivan. The writer has lived almost all his life in Poltava. He was buried there in 1838. The house is the building of the XVIII century. In the court before the building there is the bust of the writer by the work ...

In 1908-1909 in honor of the 200th anniversary of the Poltava Battle The White Altanka was built. There is an original monument on the Ivanov's mountain - eight columns stay as a half-round, the delicate wreath supports it up reminding a horseshoe. There was Sampsonievskaya tower of the Poltava fortress in the days of the North war. There is a legend about the horse of Peter the First who lost a horseshoe here. A local ...

October street is the central street of the city. It takes beginning at the Soborny maydan. The street appeared in the second half of the 18 century. At that time the general layouts of building were developed for many towns of provinces by the decree of Katherine II. And although the original plan was not put in life, a few new streets were created, including, connecting the Soborny maydan and the central area of Poltava ...

Poltava is a great town. Poltava has museums, churches, beautiful parks and nice old buildings. It stands out between the towns of Ukraine connected past and future.

Poltava is a regional town located on the both banks of the Vorskla-river of the left tributary of Dnipro. Ipatiivsky chronicle remembered the name of «Ltava» for the first time in 1174. The siversky prince Igor «crossed to Vorskl' in Ltava» pursuing polovtsies. But as archaeologists say people ...