Things to do in Poltava
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Poltava Battle Museum
The Poltava Battle Museum is by the Peter I statue. Inside are displays relating to the battle, including maps, paintings and Peter I’s original uniform. There’s nothing (beyond one paltry portrait) to document the Cossack forces under hetman Ivan Mazepa. Aside from the museum, the battlefield contains numerous monuments and various redoubts of the old fortress, many of which have been restored.
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Poltava Regional Museum
Southeast of Korpusny Park, vul Zhovtneva becomes a pedestrian precinct for a few blocks leading down to leafy Zhovtnevy Park, with the Poltava Regional Museum on its southeast edge. The museum’s collection of random archaeological and cultural artefacts is almost overshadowed by its gorgeous Art Nouveau building (1903), adorned with the ceramic crests of each district capital in the Poltava oblast.
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Khrestovozdvyzhensky Monastery
Khrestovozdvyzhensky Monastery was built in the early 18th-century. The main cathedral is one of only two in the country with seven cupolas, rather than five (the other is St Michael's Monastery in Kyiv). The monastery is a long (30 minutes), straight walk east on vul Radyanska (Sovetskaya) from Korpusny Park.
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Kotlyarevsky Museum
The Kotlyarevsky Museum is in the lovingly restored former home of Ivan Kotlyarevsky (1739–1838), one of the fathers of Ukrainian literature. The museum provides a glimpse into traditional Ukrainian life in the early 19th century.
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Ivana Horla
The middle-of-the-road European food here is quite reasonably priced considering the jaw-dropping views of the Khrestovozdvyzhensky Monastery across the valley. Shorts are forbidden and it’s often rented out for weddings.
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Euro-Tour
Euro-Tour does excellent three-hour tours of the battlefield where Peter the Great’s army defeated the Ukrainian Cossacks under Ivan Mazepa and their Swedish allies in 1709. Also does city tours.
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Poltava Art Gallery
Just east of Korpusny park is the Poltava Art Gallery, which hosts modern-art exhibits as well as the not-so-modern collection of the recently closed Poltava Art Museum.
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Poltavske Pivo
Their 2.50uah locally brewed draught beer might just be the cheapest in Ukraine, and they’re right on Poltava’s main pedestrian drag.
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Café Retro
Sizeable portions of Central Asian–influenced Ukrainian and international dishes emerge from the kitchen at this refined eatery.
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Iron Column of Glory
The Iron Column of Glory, which is topped by a golden eagle, was erected on the 100th anniversary of Peter the Great's battle.
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Spaska Church
The quaint wooden Spaska Church, with its newly rebuilt bell tower, faces an odd monument to Tsar Peter I (Peter the Great).
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Uspenska Church
The newly rebuilt Uspenska Church is in the centre of maydan Soborny which is the prettiest little place in Poltava.
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