Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Poltava, Ukraine

The White Arbor (under the USSR officially the Rotunda of Friendship of Peoples) is an original landmark in the form of a gazebo with a colonnade in the city of Poltava, erected 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)

The memorial sign of the Poltava dumpling, or the monument to the dumpling, is a symbolic memorial sign in honor of the traditional dish of Ukrainian cuisine for the region of Poltava region — dumplings, in Poltava, one of the city symbols, the personification of generosity and prosperity.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятний знак полтавській галушці (UK)

The Museum-Estate of Ivan Kotlyarevsky is a memorial complex in Poltava on the basis of the estate where the founder of 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 listed in the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine in the status of a monument of national importance.

Wikipedia: Музей-садиба Івана Котляревського (UK)

Birch Grove is a botanical natural monument of local importance in Ukraine. It is located in the city of Poltava, at the intersection of Yuliana Matviychuk and Mishchenko streets.

Wikipedia: Березовий гай (Полтава) (UK)

Poltava Museum of Aviation and Cosmonautics is a unique museum of aviation and rocket and space in Poltava. The building of the Museum of Aviation and Cosmonautics is included in the List of Architectural Monuments of National Importance.

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

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

Poltava Literary and Memorial Museum of V. Korolenko is a museum in Poltava dedicated to the Russian writer and publicist Volodymyr Korolenko. It is located in the green zone of the Shevchenkivskyi district on Korolenko Street.

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

Monument to Mykola Sklifosovsky in Poltava is a monument to the outstanding Ukrainian surgeon Mykola Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky (1836-1904) in the regional center of Ukraine, the city of Poltava, where he lived and worked in the last years of his life.

Wikipedia: Пам'ятник Миколі Скліфосовському (Полтава) (UK)