On day after the battle Peter I issued an order to build two churches in the name of St. Sampsoniy, whose name-day is celebrated on the 27th of June – the day of the battle. One of these churches was erected in St. Petersburg and another one was supposed to be built in Poltava.
The Church of the Savior is the oldest church in Poltava. In the middle of the seventeenth century it was probably a side precinct of the wooden Church of the Transfiguration of Christ, which burned down in 1705.
A monument above the common grave of Russian warriors killed in the battle of Poltava was opened on June 27th in presence the Emperor Alexander III. However, the heavy granite cross started to sink. In 1906 a decision to open the common grave of Russian warriors, reinforce the foundation of the memorial and built an [...]
Split restaurant which is located in 22 Gogolya Str., in 100 meters from Zhovtneva Str., the main street of Poltava. Split restaurant charms from the threshold, fascinates with its stylish, adjusted to details, entourage. It is skillfully designed within the frames of one amazing concept.
Poltava region is justly considered to be a large educational and scientific center of Ukraine. Here lived, studied or taught such masters of their particular fields as V.G. Korolenko, philosopher, writer, public progressive figure and humanist of the beginning of 20 century, Y.V. Kondratyuk (O.G.Shargey), one of the space flights theory pioneers of the second [...]
Riviera – small hotel where in rooms of business and lux class, with fine design, pure and cosy, you can forget about road and weariness, and to take pleasure in silence and comfort in ecologically pure area of city of Poltava.
The turning point in the Northern War (1700–21) between Sweden and Russia. When Hetman Ivan Mazepa learned that Tsar Peter I intended to abolish the autonomy of the Hetman state, he began secret negotiations with Charles XII of Sweden to ensure that Ukraine would not be annexed by Poland in the event of a Swedish [...]
Hitler was amazed by richness and beauty of Ukrainian lands. Thanks to the operation of Kharkiv, that was successful conducted on 28 May,1942, he was sure that Ukraine had become a part of Germany forever. On the captured territory it was planned to destroy all educational establishments, except primary schools, to shoot up intelligentsia, to [...]
At the beginning of the XX century Poltavhchyna was a part of old Eastern Slavonic tribes. As a result of archeological investigations remains of their settlements and memorials of material culture have been found. Though traces of other non-Slavonic nations are found on the territory of Poltava oblast’. In Kyiv Rus’ times Poltavshchyna was a [...]
When the battle opened, Charles had about 14,000 men, while Peter commanded about 45,000. To make matters worse for the Swedes, Charles was wounded during the siege on June 17, when he was hit in the foot while taking part in a small engagement during an inspection of the Swedish outposts on the banks of [...]