Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Poltava, Ukraine

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Number of sights 6 sights
Distance 1.9 km
Ascend 33 m
Descend 49 m

Explore Poltava in Ukraine with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Poltava

Sight 1: Korolenko Museum

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Poltava Literary-Memorial Museum of V. Korolenko is a museum in Poltava. It is located in the green zone of the Shevchenkivskyi district on a street also named after the democratic writer, progressive public figure and humanist of the early 20th century Volodymyr Korolenko.

Wikipedia: Полтавський літературно-меморіальний музей В. Короленка (UK)

317 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Air and Space Museum

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Air and Space Museum Slovolyub / Cc-by-3.0

The Poltava Aviation and Space Museum is a unique museum of aviation and rocket-space themes in Poltava. The building of the Museum of Aviation and Astronautics is included in the list of monuments of national importance.

Wikipedia: Полтавський музей авіації та космонавтики (UK), Website

123 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Monument to Poltava fortress commandant A. S. Kelyn

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The monument to the glorious defenders of Poltava and the commandant of the fortress Alexei Kelin is a monument in honor of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava in Poltava. The monument was erected on June 27, 1909 on the site of the 4th bastion of the Poltava fortress. It is located at the corner of Pervomaiskoy Avenue, Shevchenko and Sadovaya streets. The monument is a granite obelisk on a pedestal. On the obelisk there is a bronze old coat of arms of Poltava, at the foot there is a bronze figure of a lion, on the pedestal there are plaques with memorial inscriptions. Until 1918, the monument was crowned with a bronze sculpture of a double-headed eagle. It is surrounded by a fence of balls-cores, which are interconnected by a chain. The authors are architect O. O. Bilderling, sculptor O. L. Ober. During the Nazi occupation, the bronze parts were taken to Germany. In 1947-1949, they were re-cast in Leningrad and installed, the height of the monument was increased. It was restored in 1949.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятник славним захисникам Полтави і коменданту фортеці Олексію Келіну (UK), Website

1152 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 4: The Museum-Place of I. P. Kotlyarevsky

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The Museum-Place of I. P. Kotlyarevsky Початково цей файл було завантажено користувачем Turzh з українська Вікіпедія / Attribution

The Museum-Estate of Ivan Kotlyarevsky is a memorial complex in Poltava based on the estate where the founder of the new Ukrainian literature, Ivan Petrovich Kotlyarevsky, was born in 1769. The estate-museum, which is a branch of the Poltava Literary and Memorial Museum of I. P. Kotlyarevsky, is located next to the Assumption Cathedral, which is on the square of the same name, on Ivanova Hill named after the writer. The estate is included in the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine in the status of a monument of national importance.

Wikipedia: Музей-садиба Івана Котляревського (UK)

126 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Пам'ятний знак полтавській галушці

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A commemorative sign to Poltava dumplings, or a monument to dumplings, is a symbolic memorial sign in honor of the traditional Ukrainian cuisine dish for the Poltava region - dumplings, in Poltava, one of the city symbols, the personification of generosity and well-being.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятний знак полтавській галушці (UK)

151 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: The White Arbor

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The White Gazebo (officially the Rotunda of Friendship of Peoples in the USSR) is an original monument in the form of a gazebo with a colonnade in the city of Poltava, built for the first time in 1909 in honor of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava; One of the symbols of the city.

Wikipedia: Біла альтанка (UK)

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