Poltava - regional center of independent Ukraine is located on the two banks (mainly - on the right) of the river Vorskla. Slavonic settlement of Ltava, being on territory of present Poltava, was founded more than 1100 years ago and had time for this time to see a great deal. The waves of nomads were gone rolling here, reserving fire and ash. Weak earth became the easy booty of the Great duchy Lithuanian, and later - Polish feudal lords. In the middle of the 17th ages, in the period of liberation war of the Ukrainian people, Poltava got up under the colours of Bogdan Khmelnitskiy.
In 1802 Poltava became the center of province with a population of 8 thousands people. Today more than 300 thousand habitants live in Poltava.
Poltava takes care about the memorable places related to the visiting of the town by Ivan Kotlyarevskyi, Panas Myrnyi, Anton Makarenko, Volodymyr Sukhomlynskyi, Mykola Gogol and many others. Poltava became a hometown for a famous writer Korolenko and artist Myasoyedov. Lunacharskyi and Kondratyuk were born here.
Poltava is a large economic, scientific and cultural center. In town always loved and love sport. Central stadium «Vorskla» is in a comfortable place, in the heart of Poltava. It is not difficult for fans to reach it from another city - from a bus terminal by trolleybuses or busses to the bus stop in Sinna Street, from the South or Kyiv’s railway stations – the same, or to the bus stop «Maydan Nezalezhnosti». Also it is possible to reach the destination practically from any district of the town by a rout taxi, or by busses, plying by a «circular» route.
There are many places to see in Poltava - more than ten museums, Gallery of modern art, legitimate and doll dramas, many of restaurants and cafes, movie theaters.