Ukraine, Poltava region: districts, villages. Komsomolsk, Karlovka, Poltava region

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol - one of the most famous writers, a bright and extraordinary personality. He loved his native land and was proud of it. Poltava region, thanks to its unusually talented natives, became famous throughout the world and for all ages. Now for tourists there is organized an exciting route. Let's go through all of its points, and also look into other interesting towns and villages of the famous region.

Poltava

The Poltava region occupies the eastern part of Ukraine. It is known primarily for its administrative and cultural center, Poltava. Mention of this city can be found in the 12th century in the Ipatiev Chronicle. However, numerous excavations conducted on its territory indicate that the first settlements here arose in the Paleolithic period. For its long history Poltava many times passed from hand to hand. Poles, Lithuanians, Russians, Ukrainians owned it. It was repeatedly ravaged by raids and became the site of the decisive battles. The most famous is the Battle of Poltava, in which Peter the Great brilliantly defeated the Swedes. In the people even lives the winged, well-known far beyond Ukraine's phrase "the abyss, as a Swede near Poltava." In the beginning of the 19th century the Poltava region became a kind of cultural center of Little Russia. Here Kotlyarevsky was born, who presented the wonderful opera Natalka-Poltavka to the world, Gogol, Panas Mirny. In Poltava lived and created masterpieces writer Korolenko, Nechuy-Levitsky, worked Vernadsky and Sklifosovsky. Poltava residents cherish their historical heritage. Tourists here are waiting for monuments of the past and modern times, unique museums, national cuisine, comfortable hotels and hospitable hospitality.

Mirgorod

Poltava region, in addition to its administrative center, includes four regional cities. This Komsomolsk, Lubny, Kremenchuk and the famous Mirgorod. He became famous because of the Gogol storybook of the same name. Probably, there is not a single person who would not read or watch "Viy". The story "Taras Bulba" is no less famous. Mirgorodtsy originally immortalized the immortal creation, making a city puddle, mentioned in the fourth story, one of the central sights. Now it looks like a pond and is ennobled with benches and sculptures around it. In addition to the puddle, there are numerous monuments, a museum, a unique birch grove, a wonderful park. From the point of view of history and architecture, the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the chapel of Panteleimon the Healer are of interest .

Komsomolsk, Poltava region

This modern city grew on the shore of the Dneprodzerzhinsk reservoir. It appeared due to the magnetic anomaly discovered by geologists . Develop it gathered young people from all over the Soviet Union. They named a new city in honor of the Komsomol members on the Amur River. However, restless archaeologists have discovered on its territory sites and settlements of the ancients, which testify that once the Scythians, Goths, Sarmatians and even Sumerians lived in Komsomolsk. Tourists here are waiting for unique monuments of the 5th millennium before Christ and the beginning of our era. These are burial mounds of nomads "Three brothers", "Swedish grave", "Brick" and some others. Despite the fact that it is quite young and does not have historical monuments the city of Komsomolsk, the Poltava region thanks to it is famous for its humorous sculptures. Only here you can see a monument to an old woman selling turkish buns and seeds, a plumber, a traffic cop, a pig personifying alcoholics.

Lubny and Kremenchug

Lubny is another historical and cultural center, which Poltava region is proud of. Ukraine is a country where Christianity is mostly practiced. Lubny were founded just in the year when Vladimir baptized Rus. For a long time he was ruled by the Vishnevetsky family. The widow of Prince Michael Rain Mohylanka built a temple on his own money, and soon in the same area founded the Mgar monastery. It became the largest Orthodox center. Now on the territory of the city there are several existing and at the same time historical monuments. This Mgarsky monastery, the Transfiguration Cathedral and the monastery, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin. Kremenchuk, a beautiful city and regional center, was founded in the form of a defensive fortress in the distant 16th century. Over the years of his existence, he was attacked many times by invaders and suffered severe destruction. But, despite all the troubles, the city survived and was rebuilt. At the end of the 18th - the beginning of the 19th centuries, Krukovsky Posad entered its territorial structure, the place where the Kuruk Treaty was supposedly signed.

Cities of regional importance

In Poltava there are 11 regional cities: Lokhvitsa, Shishaki, Karlovka (Poltava region), Globino, Kobelyaki. Each of them has its own remarkable history. Gadyach was founded in the middle of the 15th century, but the first settlements here were built by Scythian tribes.

On the territory of the city there is the grave of Shneur-Zalman Bar Baruk, the founder of the Chassidim Chabad movement. Therefore, religious pilgrims from all over the world come here. Piryatin is considered the birthplace of Alesha Popovich, the Russian epic hero. And in this pretty town the Soviet comedy "Queen of a gas station" with Nadezhda Rumiantseva in the title role was shot. About the city of Khorol, named after the river of the same name, on which it stands, mentions Vladimir Monomakh. In ancient times, Khorol more than once reflected the raids of nomadic tribes, and the Tatar-Mongols were almost completely destroyed. Other regional cities of Poltava - Grebenka (named after the Ukrainian writer), Zenkov, Chervonozavodskoye. They and several other settlements form the districts of the Poltava region, which number twenty-five.

Former Orchik

In the seventies of the 17th century Orchik settlement was founded. The name she received from the river of the same name, the tributary of the Orel. Now it is the city of Karlovka (Poltava region). This name was given to the settlement by Bernhard Weisbach, who received it as a token of gratitude for the service of Russia as a general. Weisbach was originally from Karlovy Vary. So he named his possessions in a fatherly way. The territory of the present city is decorated with picturesque ponds in which the source of the Tagamlyk river is born. The places here are beautiful, there are many estuaries, lakes with different livestock. At the beginning of the 19th century, the then owners of the city (the Razumovsky family) built the Uspenskaya Church at their own expense, in which the famous writer Panas Mirny was married. Through Karlovka pass the railway line and motor roads.

Dikanka

Mystical, mysterious, hospitable Dikanka. Thanks to the genius of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, she became one of the most famous places on Earth. Probably, without Dikanka would lose its special color Poltava region. Ukraine offers tourists a lot of interesting things, but only here, in the village of Prony, that in the Dikan district, you can see the real trait stalking the roof behind the Month, talk to the blacksmith Vakula and Pan Solokha. You can get to the hamlet by the Poltava highway. A great admirer of Gogol's talent, the head of the Provinsky administration VV Udovichenko recreated the atmosphere of the times described in the story with the same huts covered with reeds, wattle fences, smithy, coots, wagons. It is especially difficult to get to Dikanka for Christmas, as tours here are actively bought up. Lucky people who managed to buy a ticket are waiting for interesting excursion programs, local cuisine with dishes cooked in the oven, and a Christmas presentation. In addition to the farm, Dikanka is famous for the estate of the famous Kochubeev, the Arc de Triomphe, erected right in the open field, Troitskaya and Nikolayevskaya churches.

Sorochintsy

Some villages of the Poltava region are also widely known. One of them is the Great Sorochintsy. It lies on the Psel River, which carries its waters to the wide and mighty Dnieper. This place gave the world the great Gogol. In the house where he was born, a museum was founded. In Ukraine, fairs took place in many cities and villages, but there is no such famous one as Sorochinskaya. His fame was brought to the same title by Gogol. Due to her motives, our contemporaries were given a wonderful musical, in which famous and beloved singers and artists took part. Now the territory of the fair is stylized in the old days. In addition to bidding, there are interesting performances and concerts of musical groups.

Resorts of Poltava region

Poltava region is also famous for its extraordinary sources of medicinal water. Rest here can be carried out in multiple sanatoriums, built in the Mirgorod area, on the rivers Psyol and Tashan. The main value of treatment in the Poltava region is curative mineral springs. Here you can improve your health or just relax wonderfully, enjoying the beauty of nature and fresh air, spending time on clean sandy beaches. In the sanatoriums are treated various diseases of the digestive tract and the musculoskeletal system, the heart, vessels, joints, nerves, lungs. The rest are waiting for comfortable buildings, excellent food, modern medical and diagnostic centers, applying the latest techniques.