About the city and region

Poltava is the city located in the central part of Ukraine. It is an administrativ, industrial and cultural center of Poltava region, as well as the administrative center of Poltava area withing the region. The current population of the city estimates about 313 000 people.

The centre of the old city is presented as a semicircular Neoclassical square with the famous Tuscan column of cast iron built in 1805 commemorating the centenary of the Poltava Battle and featuring 18 Swedish cannons captured in that battle. As Russian Emperor Peter I celebrated his victory in the Saviour church, this 17th-century wooden shrine was carefully preserved to this day. The five-domed city cathedral, dedicated to the Cross Exaltation, is a superb monument in Baroque style, erected in 1699. As a whole, the cathedral presents a unity which even the Neoclassical bell tower has failed to mar. Another famous Baroque church, dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos, was creashed in 1934 and renovated in the 1990s.

Places to visit:

There are 7 state Museums in Poltava: Handy art museum, of local lore, preserve-museum "The field of the battle in Poltava", literary- memorial museum of I. Kotliarevskij, P.Murnuj, V.Korolenko, the museum of cosmonautics. You can visit the Round Square of the city, which is a copy of the famous Palace Square in the Russian St.Petersburg, built to honor the 100 anniversary of the battle in Poltava.

How to get there:

By car - Poltava can be reached by many of main highways in its region of Ukraine.
By train - there are regular railway routes from other cities of Ukraine to Poltava. Many of them start in Kyiv, so you can easily reach the city.