Train 130 Kremenchuk-Vorokhta. Nadvirna to Mykulychyn

Passenger train No. 130 Kremenchuk-Vorokhta links the centre and the west of Ukraine, an industrial and academic region with the Carpathian land. Residents of the Poltava and Kyiv regions travel by train to Lviv, to Ivano-Frankivsk and to a place of active recreation — the mountain resorts of the Nadvirna area.

 

Poltava. Young and Wonderful. A Walk Round the Landmarks

The convenient location of Poltava, surrounded by seven brothers — the capital and regional centres — allows one to broaden the geography of travel and reach the city on the Vorskla in 3-4 hours from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Cherkasy, Kropyvnytskyi. A weekend in one of the oldest cities of Ukraine, with a thousand-year history, to admire the panorama of the city from Ivanova Hora, to taste the famous Poltava halushky and to see the other notable landmarks of the cultural centre of our country — this is interesting, convenient, tasty and instructive.

Poltava. Cathedral Square

Poltava. Holy St Nicholas Church. A Revival of History

In the historic centre of Poltava, on Pershomaiskyi Lane, which links Pershotravnevyi Avenue with Nebesnoi Sotni (Heavenly Hundred) Street, an unusual church draws the eye. This building, erected not in the canonical architectural style of Orthodox churches, houses the Holy St Nicholas Church, especially dear to and revered by the people of Poltava.

Holy St Nicholas Church. Pershotravnevyi Lane, 3.

Poltava. The Ivan Kotliarevskyi Memorial Estate Museum

The works of the writer and enlightener Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevskyi remain relevant and, in the 21st century, still find their way to the reader's heart. More than 200 years ago, in his much-criticised "Eneida", the Ukrainian playwright voiced a protest against the advance of the imperial forces of the northern neighbour and mocked the people's powerlessness to resist the enthronement of great-power ambition and the loss of Cossack autonomy. The classic of new Ukrainian literature was born, studied, worked and died in Poltava, and he wrote in the Poltava dialect of the Ukrainian language.

The Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevskyi Memorial Estate Museum

Opishnia. The Source of Ukrainian Pottery and Art Nouveau

The Poltava region is famous not only for its Gogol places, the Myrhorod waters and the Sorochyntsi Fair. Thirty kilometres from Poltava lies the world-recognised capital of Ukrainian pottery — the village of Opishnia.

Opishnia. Poltava region. The Museum of the Krychevskyi Family

Dibrivka. The Stud Farm. Interesting Tours and Encounters

Seeing a live horse these days is difficult, but possible. Despite the fact that cars have driven horse-drawn transport off the city streets and agricultural labour has been mechanised, horses remain among the most faithful companions of humankind over six millennia and give people strength and inspiration. The beauty and endurance of these animals — which served humanity on the battlefield and at the plough, carried people over long distances and won tournaments — were valued in ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, where equestrian statues were erected in their honour. A touching and very fine sculptural depiction of a horse and a foal has been installed in the village of Dibrivka, Myrhorod district, on the grounds of the stud farm.

Dibrivka, Myrhorod district, Poltava region. The stud farm

Myrhorod. A Glorious Town, a Wonderful Resort

Myrhorod — a resort in the Poltava region with a welcoming and kindly name — has been hospitably greeting holidaymakers for more than a hundred years now. The well-known lines of the Ukrainian poet Pavlo Tychyna, "Myrhorod is not the same now, the Khorol river is not the same", can be linked to the positive changes in the amenities of this health resort.

Myrhorod, Poltava region. The embankment of the Khorol river

Velyki Sorochyntsi. 210 Years Since Gogol's Birth

Every resident of our country knows and has heard of Velyki Sorochyntsi. Every year here, in the heart of Ukraine, a trade and cultural mass event is held — the national Sorochyntsi Fair. This village in the Poltava region was made famous by the work of Mykola Vasyliovych Gogol, who was born here. His whole life is filled with myths and mysteries, and his birthplace still remains a riddle. Gogol scholars claim that the spring flood, as of 1 April 1809, washed out the roads and carried away the bridges, and the infant came into the world in a wagon train, as befits a future traveller. But the residents of the writer's little homeland refute this version and are convinced that Nikosha's mother, who had already lost two children, came to doctor Trokhymovsky in good time. What does the cradle of the most enigmatic writer of Ukrainian and Russian literature look like now?

Velyki Sorochyntsi, Poltava region. The M. V. Gogol Literary Memorial Museum