Attractions of Poltava

The Poltava Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after Mykola Hohol is the main and oldest theater stage of the region.

The year of his birth is considered to be 1808, when the "Poltava Free Theater" was opened in the city, which was managed by Ivan Kotlyarevsky from 1818. In 1901, a new building was built for the Poltava theater - the Educational House.

After the Second World War, the damaged building was converted into a Kolos cinema, and in 1958, a new pompous building was built for the Hohol Drama Theater, designed by the architects Oleksiy Krylov and Oleh Malyshenko.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the Hohol Theater was considered one of the best in Ukraine. His production of "Natalka Poltavka" with the participation of People's Artist of the USSR Ivan Kozlovsky was successfully staged in Moscow.

In 2006, a monument to the legendary Marusa Churai, nicknamed the monument to Ukrainian song, was erected in the square next to the theater.

The Poltava Literary and Memorial Museum of Volodymyr Korolenko was opened in the house where the writer and his family lived for the last 18 years of his life and where he died in 1921.

The writer's creativity is closely connected with Ukraine, where he was born and spent his childhood, and where he returned towards the end of his life. In Poltava, Korolenko worked on a large autobiographical work, "The History of My Contemporary", which was supposed to summarize everything he had experienced and systematize his philosophical views. The work remained unfinished. The writer died while working on the fourth volume. He was buried on the territory of Peremohy Park near the estate.

The estate itself was restored after the war. The complex includes a building-museum (memorial part), a wing (exhibition hall), a garden. In the reconstructed office of Korolenko, you can see his desk, writing instruments, and a wooden couch.