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Poltava (; ) is a city
City

A city is an urban area with a high population density and a particular administrative, legal, or historical status.Large industrialized cities generally have advanced systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, house, and transportation and more....
 in central Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
. It is the administrative center
Capital City

Capital City was a television show produced by Euston Films which focused on the lives of investment bankers in London living and working on the corporate trading floor for the fictional international bank Shane-Longman....
 of the Poltava Oblast
Poltava Oblast

Poltava Oblast is an administrative divisions of Ukraine of central Ukraine. The capital city of the oblast is the city of Poltava.Other important cities within the oblast include: Komsomolsk, Ukraine, Kremenchuk, Lubny and Myrhorod....
 (province
Oblast

Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic peoples countries and in some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region"....
), as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Poltavskyi Raion (district
Raion

A raion is a type of administrative unit of some post-Soviet states. The term, which is of French origin, describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is almost always translated as "district"....
) within the oblast. The city itself is also designated as its own separate raion within the oblast. The current estimated population is 313,400 (as of 2004).

History
It is still unknown when the city was founded. Baltavar Kubrat
Kubrat

Kubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by defeating the Eurasian Avars and uniting all the Bulgars under one rule....
's grave was found in its vicinity, and its name derives from the title he, his predecessors and his successors bore.






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Poltava (; ) is a city
City

A city is an urban area with a high population density and a particular administrative, legal, or historical status.Large industrialized cities generally have advanced systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, house, and transportation and more....
 in central Ukraine
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
. It is the administrative center
Capital City

Capital City was a television show produced by Euston Films which focused on the lives of investment bankers in London living and working on the corporate trading floor for the fictional international bank Shane-Longman....
 of the Poltava Oblast
Poltava Oblast

Poltava Oblast is an administrative divisions of Ukraine of central Ukraine. The capital city of the oblast is the city of Poltava.Other important cities within the oblast include: Komsomolsk, Ukraine, Kremenchuk, Lubny and Myrhorod....
 (province
Oblast

Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic peoples countries and in some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region"....
), as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Poltavskyi Raion (district
Raion

A raion is a type of administrative unit of some post-Soviet states. The term, which is of French origin, describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is almost always translated as "district"....
) within the oblast. The city itself is also designated as its own separate raion within the oblast. The current estimated population is 313,400 (as of 2004).

History


It is still unknown when the city was founded. Baltavar Kubrat
Kubrat

Kubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by defeating the Eurasian Avars and uniting all the Bulgars under one rule....
's grave was found in its vicinity, and its name derives from the title he, his predecessors and his successors bore. Though the town was not attested before 1174, municipal authorities chose to celebrate the town's 1100th anniversary in 1999, for reasons unknown. The settlement is indeed an old one, as archeologists unearthed a Paleolithic
Paleolithic

The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic or "Old Stone" era is a Prehistory era distinguished by the development of the first stone tools, and covers roughly 99% of human history....
 dwelling as well as Scythian remains within the city limits.

The present name of the city is traditionally connected to the settlement Ltava
Ltava

Ltava, the name of a settlement mentioned in the Hypatian Chronicle, traditionally connected to the name of the city of Poltava, Ukraine.Now it is also the trademark of food products originating from Poltava....
 which is mentioned in the Hypatian Chronicle in 1174. The region belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Grand Duchy of Lithuania

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was an Eastern and Central European state from the 12th /13th century until the 18th century. It was founded by Lithuanians, at the time one of the Lithuanian mythology Baltic tribes, whose initial lands covered Auk?taitija, the eastern part of present day Lithuania....
 from the 14th century. The Polish
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
 administration took over in 1569. In 1648 Poltava was captured by the Ruthenian-Polish magnate
Magnate

Magnate, from the Late Latin magnas, a great man, itself from Latin magnus 'great', designates a noble or other man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or other qualities....
 Jeremi Wisniowiecki
Jeremi Wisniowiecki

Jeremi Michal Korybut Wisniowiecki was a notable member of the aristocracy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Prince at Wisniowiec, Lubny and Khorol and a father of future Polish king Michal Korybut Wisniowiecki....
 (1612-51). Poltava was the base of a distinguished regiment of the Ukrainian
Ukrainians

Ukrainians are an East Slavs ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly?citizens of Ukraine . Some 200 years ago and times prior to that, Ukrainians were usually referred to and known as Rusyny ....
 Cossacks. In 1667 the town passed to the Russian Empire
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
.

In the Battle of Poltava
Battle of Poltava

The Battle of Poltava on 27 June 1709 was the decisive victory of Peter I of Russia over Charles XII of Sweden in the most famous of the battles of the Great Northern War....
 on June 27, 1709 (Old Style), or 8 July (New Style), tsar Peter the First
Peter I of Russia

Peter I the Great or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov ruled Russia and later the Russian Empire from until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his weak and sickly half-brother, Ivan V of Russia....
, commanding 45,000 troops, defeated at Poltava a Swedish
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 army of 29,000 troops led by Field Marshal
Field Marshal

Field marshal is a military officer rank. Today it is the highest rank in the armies in which it is used, one step above a general or colonel-general....
 Carl Gustaf Rehnskiφld (who had received the command of the army after the wounding of the Swedish king Charles XII
Charles XII of Sweden

Charles XII was the Monarch of Sweden from 1697 to 1718.Charles was the only surviving son of King Charles XI of Sweden and Ulrike Eleonora of Denmark, and he assumed the crown at the age of fifteen, at the death of his father....
 on June 17). "Like a Swede at Poltava" remains a simile for "completely defeated" in Russian. The battle marked the end of Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 as a great power
Great power

A great power is a nation or state that has the ability to exert its influence on a global scale. Great powers characteristically possess economics, military, diplomacy, and soft power strength, which may cause other, smaller nations to consider the opinions of great powers before taking actions of their own....
 and the rise of Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 as one.

Sights


The centre of the old city is a semicircular Neoclassical square with the Tuscan column of cast iron (1805-11), commemorating the centenary of the Battle of Poltava
Battle of Poltava

The Battle of Poltava on 27 June 1709 was the decisive victory of Peter I of Russia over Charles XII of Sweden in the most famous of the battles of the Great Northern War....
 and featuring 18 Swedish cannons captured in that battle. As Peter the Great
Peter I of Russia

Peter I the Great or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov ruled Russia and later the Russian Empire from until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his weak and sickly half-brother, Ivan V of Russia....
 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 Exaltation of the Cross, is a superb monument of Cossack Baroque, built between 1699 and 1709. As a whole, the cathedral presents a unity which even the Neoclassical belltower has failed to mar. Another frothy Baroque church, dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos, was destroyed in 1934 and rebuilt in the 1990s.

Administrative divisions

The city is divided into three raion
Raion

A raion is a type of administrative unit of some post-Soviet states. The term, which is of French origin, describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is almost always translated as "district"....
s, or districts.

  • Oktiabrski raion, to the south-west with an area of 2077 hectares and a population of 147,600 in 2005. It's a largely residential area and includes the city centre.


  • Kyivski raion, is the largest by area, comprising 5437 hectares, or 52.8% of the city total situated in the north and north-west. Its census in 2005 was 111,900. This district has a large industrial zone.


  • Leninski raion, to the east and south-east, in the valley of the Vorskla river, with an area of 2988 hectares and a population of 53,700 in 2005.


The village of Rozsoshenci is officialy considered to be outside the city, but actually constitutes a part of Poltava agglomeration.

Transport and infrastructure

Transportation in Poltava is well-developed. The city has two major train stations, and rail links with the cities of Kiev
Kiev

Kiev, also known as Kyiv , is the Capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River....
, Kharkiv
Kharkiv

Kharkiv , or Kharkov is the second largest city in Ukraine.It was the first capital of Soviet Ukraine, now the Capital of the Kharkiv Oblast , as well as the administrative center of the surrounding Kharkiv Oblast within the oblast....
, and Kremenchuk
Kremenchuk

Kremenchuk is an important industrial city in the Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine. Serving as the Capital city of the Kremenchutskyi Raion , the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast, and is located on the banks of Dnieper River....
. The line towards Kiev is electrified and is used by the Poltava Express, a regular service with comfortable carriages. Electrification of the Poltava-Kharkiv line was completed in August 2008. Avtovokzal is the city's intercity bus station
Bus station

A bus station is a structure where city bus or intercity bus buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. It is larger than a bus stop, which is usually simply a place on the sidewalk where buses can stop....
. Buses for local municipal routes park along Shevchenko
Taras Shevchenko

Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was a Ukrainians poet, artist and Humanism. His literary heritage is regarded to be the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature and, to a large extent, the modern Ukrainian language....
 street.

City transportation is represented by the following:
  • trolleybus
    Trolleybus

    A trolleybus is an electric bus that draws its electricity from a network of charged overhead wires using spring loaded trolley poles. Two poles are needed, so that one can draw down the live current to power the motor and the other can complete the circuit by carrying the neutral current back to the network....
    es with fifteen routes and a network of 72.6 km;
  • bus
    Bus

    A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. A bus can generally seat a maximum of anywhere from 8 to 200 passengers; many more passengers than a minivan....
    es, including a ringroad route;
  • marshrutka
    Marshrutka

    Marshrutka , from marshrutnoye taksi is a share taxi in the Commonwealth of Independent States countries, the Baltic states, and Bulgaria....
    s on all bus routes.


Poltava has a domestic airport
Domestic airport

A domestic airport is an airport which handles only domestic flights or flights within the same country. Domestic airports don't have customs and immigration facilities and are therefore incapable of handling flights to or from a foreign airport....
, situated outside the city limits near the village of Ivashki. The international highway
Highway

A highway is a main road intended for travel by the public between important destinations, such as city and towns. Highway designs vary widely and can range from a two-lane road without margins to a multi-lane, grade separated freeway....
 M 03
International Highways (Ukraine)

International Highways - are the roads in Ukraine on the route involving international transport corridors and/or highways that are part of the European network of basic, intermediate, and the roads connecting branches and a corresponding international indexing , and provide the international road transport....
 linking Poltava with Kiev and Kharkiv passes through the southern outskirts of Poltava city. There is also a regional highway P-17 crossing Poltava and linking it with Kremenchuk and Sumy
Sumy

Sumy is a city on the Psel River in Ukraine, and the Capital of the Sumy Oblast. As of 2004, the city's population is 283,700. It is served by Sumy Airport....
.

Education

Poltava has always been one of the most important science and education centres in Ukraine. Major universities and insititutions of higher education include the following:

  • named after V. G. Korolenko
    Vladimir Korolenko

    Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko...
  • named after Yuri Kondratyuk
    Yuri Kondratyuk

    Yuri Vasilievich Kondratyuk was the pseudonym adopted by Oleksandr Gnatovich Shargei, a pioneer of astronautics and spaceflight. He was a theoretician and a visionary who, in the early twentieth century, foresaw ways of reaching the moon....
  • Ukrainian Medical Stomatological Academy
    Ukrainian medical stomatological academy

    Ukrainian Medical Stomatological Academy is a medical school in Poltava, Ukraine. 3500 students study at the Academy today, including 729 international students from 37 different countries....
     (UMSA)
  • Poltava Military Institute of Connections


Famous people from Poltava and its region

  • Marie Bashkirtseff
    Marie Bashkirtseff

    Marie Bashkirtseff was a Ukraine-born Russian diarist, painter and sculptor.Born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva in Gavrontsy near Poltava, to a wealthy noble family, she grew up abroad, traveling with her mother across most of Europe....
     — 19th c. Parisian painter, memoirist
  • Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
    Yitzhak Ben-Zvi

    Yitzhak Ben-Zvi was a historian, Labor Zionism leader, and the second and longest-serving President of Israel....
     — a historian, Labor Zionist leader, and the second and longest serving Israeli president.
  • Hanka Bielicka
    Hanka Bielicka

    Anna Weronika Bielicka was a Poland singer and actress known by the name Hanna and its affectionate diminutive Hanka.She was born in Konovka near Poltava and began acting in films in the 1940s....
     - Polish actress
  • Andriy Danylko
    Verka Serduchka

    Andriy Mykhailovych Danylko , better known as his drag queen character Verka Serduchka , is a Ukrainians comedian and Pop music and Dance music singer....
     — Ukrainian singer
  • Nikolai Gogol
    Nikolai Gogol

    Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainians-born Russian people writer. Although his early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were heavily influenced by his Ukraine upbringing and identity, he wrote in Russian and his works belong to the tradition of Russian literature; often called the "father of modern Russian realism" he...
     — writer and playwrighter
  • Alexander Gavrilovitch Gurvitch — Russia
    Russia

    Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
    n physician and biologist
  • Ivan Kotlyarevsky
    Ivan Kotlyarevsky

    Ivan Petrovych Kotlyarevsky , was a Ukraine writer, poet and playwright, regarded as the pioneer of modern Ukrainian literature....
     — Ukrainian
    Ukrainians

    Ukrainians are an East Slavs ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly?citizens of Ukraine . Some 200 years ago and times prior to that, Ukrainians were usually referred to and known as Rusyny ....
     writer, poet and playwright
  • Anatoliy Vasilievich Lunacharsky
    Anatoliy Vasilievich Lunacharsky

    Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Soviet People's Commissar of Enlightenment responsible for culture and education....
     — Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Soviet People's Commissar of Enlightenment responsible for culture and education
  • Ivan Paskevich
    Ivan Paskevich

    Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich was a Ukraine-born military leader in the Russian service. For his victories, he was made Count of Erivan in 1828 and Namestnik of Kingdom of Poland in 1831....
     — Ukrainian military leader in the Russian service
  • David Peikoff — Canadian-U.S. Deaf Rights advocate, born on March 21, 1900, in Yanoschina, Poltava Province — former Russia.
  • Zhanna Prokhorenko
    Zhanna Prokhorenko

    Zhanna Prokhorenko is an actor best known to European and North American audiences for her starring role in Grigori Chukhrai's 1959 in film film, Ballad of a Soldier....
     — Ukrainian actress
  • Sasha Putrya
    Sasha Putrya

    Sasha Putrya was born and lived in the region of Poltava, Ukraine. She died at age 11 from Leukemia. Having started painting at the age of 3, by the time of her death she had created around 2,276 painting and drawings, many of which are collected within 46 albums and are on display in a museum in Poltava, Ukraine....
     — Ukrainian artist
    Artist

    The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art....
  • Nikolai Yaroshenko
    Nikolai Yaroshenko

    Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko was a Russian painter of Ukraine origin.Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko was born on in the city of Poltava, Russian Empire to a son of a Imperial Russian Army officer....
     — Ukrainian painter
  • Maria Tarnowska
    Maria Tarnowska

    Maria Tarnowska , born Maria Nikolaevna O'Rourke , born June 9, 1877, Poltava ? died January 23, 1949, Santa Fe, Argentina, Argentina.She gained international notoriety by standing trial for plotting and instigating the murder of one of her lovers....
     (born Maria Nikolaevna O'Rourke), famous femme fatale
    Femme fatale

    A femme fatale is an alluring and Seduction woman whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations....
    , whose trial
    Trial

    A trial is, in the most general sense, a test, usually a test to see whether something does or does not meet a given standard.It may refer to:...
     for murder
    Murder

    Murder as defined in common law countries, is the unlawful killing of another human being with intent , and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide....
     (Venice
    Venice

    Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
    , 1910) attracted worldwide media
    News media

    The news media refers to the section of the mass media that focuses on presenting current news to the public.These include print media ; broadcast media , and increasingly Internet-based mass media ....
     attention.
  • Vera Kholodnaya
    Vera Kholodnaya

    Vera Vasilyevna Kholodnaya was the first star of Russian silent film. Only five of her films still exist and the total number she acted in is unknown, with speculation ranging between fifty and one hundred....
     - an outstanding Ukrainian actress, the first star of Russian silent cinema
  • Yuri Kondratyuk — a pioneer of astronautics and spaceflight who, in the early twentieth century, foresaw ways of reaching the moon.
  • Panas Mirniy (born Panas Yakovych Rudchenko) - Ukrainian writer
  • Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky
    Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky

    Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky was a Ukrainian people mathematician, mechanics and physicist. Ostrogradsky is considered to be Leonhard Euler's disciple and one of the leading mathematicians of imperial Russia....
     - Ukrainian mathematician, mechanician and physicist.
  • Hryhorii Skovoroda- Ukrainian poet, philosopher and composer.
  • Symon Petliura - Ukrainian politician and statesman, a leader of Ukraine's fight for independence following the Russian Revolution of 1917.
  • Nikolai Yaroshenko
    Nikolai Yaroshenko

    Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko was a Russian painter of Ukraine origin.Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko was born on in the city of Poltava, Russian Empire to a son of a Imperial Russian Army officer....
     - Russian painter of Ukrainian origin.
  • Svetlana Kopchikova - Ukrainian swimmer and 200 m medley
    Medley swimming

    Medley is a combination of four different swimming styles into one race. This race is either swum by one swimmer as Individual Medley or by four swimmers as a Medley Relay....
     champion at the 1985 Summer Universiade
    1985 Summer Universiade

    The 1985 Summer Universiade, also known as the XIII Summer Universiade, took place in Kobe, Japan....
    .


Sports

The most popular sport is football. Two football clubs are based here: Vorskla Poltava in the Ukrainian Premier League
Ukrainian Premier League

The Ukrainian Premier League is the highest division of Ukraine annual football championship. The league was founded in 1991 after the fold of the Soviet Union's Soviet Top League....
 and FC Poltava
FC Poltava

FC Poltava is a Ukraine football club based in Poltava. The club entered the professional leagues for the 2007-08 season in the Druha Liha B. The team started the season trepidly but in the second half they improved a great deal....
 in the Druha Liha.

Honors

A minor planet
Minor planet

An asteroid group or minor planet group is a population of minor planets that have a share broadly similar orbits. Members are generally unrelated to each other, unlike in an asteroid family, which often results from the break-up of a single asteroid....
 2983 Poltava
2983 Poltava

2983 Poltava is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on September 02, 1981 by N. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.External links ...
 discovered in 1981 by Soviet
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh
Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh

Nikolay Stepanovich Chernykh was a Soviet Union, Lithuanian and Russia astronomer.Chernykh was born in the city of Usman' in Voronezh Oblast....
 is named after the city.

External links

  • (news of Poltava, events, weather, all in Ukrainian language)
  • - community of Poltava (Ukrainian, Russian)
  • - community of Poltava for foreigners
  • — Official website of Poltava
  • in Russian language