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City and administrative center of Poltava Oblast, Ukraine

Poltava

Poltava is a city on the Vorskla River in Central Ukraine.

Poltava
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The place

Poltava is a city on the Vorskla River in Central Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Poltava Oblast as well as Poltava Raion within the oblast. It also hosts the administration of Poltava urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. It had an estimated population of 279,593 in 2022.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Poltava

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Poltava Art Museum

    The Poltava Art Museum is a public art gallery in Poltava, Ukraine which contains many works of native and foreign art and a rich ethnographic collection.

    300 m · art museum in Poltava, Ukraine · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Oleksiy Butovskyi Vorskla Stadium

    Oleksiy Butovsky Vorskla Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Poltava, Ukraine. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home of FC Vorskla Poltava.

    600 m · sports stadium in Poltava, Ukraine · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Poltava Zemstvo building

    Poltava Governorate Zemstvo Building is a former administrative building and an architectural monument in Poltava, Ukraine. It was built in 1903–⁠1908 according to the design of the architect Vasyl Krychevsky, using original designs by Y. Shirshov and M. Nikolaev.

    1 km · building in Poltava, Ukraine · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Poltava University of Economics and Trade

    The Poltava University of Economics and Trade is one of the biggest universities in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine.

    900 m · public university in Poltava, Ukraine · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Poltava Museum of Long-Range and Strategic Aviation

    The Poltava Museum of Long-Range and Strategic Aviation is a museum of long-range aviation equipment located in the Ukrainian city of Poltava, on the territory of the former air base "Poltava-4". Established on September 1, 2016 in accordance with the Order of the Minister of Defense of Ukraine No.

    4.7 km · aviation museum in Poltava, Ukraine · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    National University «Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic»

    The National University "Poltava Polytechnic" is a Ukrainian public university in Poltava.

    1.9 km · public university in Poltava, Ukraine · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Lokomotiv Stadium

    Lokomotyv Stadium is a football-only stadium in Poltava, Ukraine, in Podil neighborhood of the city. It is used for football matches, and is the home of FC Poltava.

    2 km · stadium in Poltava · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Marusia Churai Memorial

    Marusia Churai Memorial is a standing figure of Marusia Churai sculpted by Dmytro Korshunov and Valeriy Holub in Poltava, Ukraine. It is located in the Regional Musical-Dramatic Theatre Nikolai Gogol on Nebesnoyi Sotni Street, the centre of Poltava.

    500 m · monument in Poltava, Ukraine · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Molodizhnyi Stadium

    Molodizhnyi Stadium is a football stadium in Poltava, Ukraine. It is the home stadium of SC Poltava, Vorskla Poltava and various regional teams.

    4.1 km · stadium in Poltava, Ukraine · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Dynamo Stadium

    Dynamo Stadium is a football stadium in Poltava, Ukraine. The stadium was built in 1938 and opened on 30 July 1938.

    400 m · stadium in Poltava, Ukraine · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Svyato-Panteleymonivska Church
  2. 02
    Voznesenskaya
  3. 03
    Khrestovozdvyzhenskyi
  4. 04
    Samsonovskaya
  5. 05
    Panteleymonivska Ukrainian Orthodox Church
  6. 06
    Synagogue

From Wikivoyage: Poltava, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    City Park

From Wikivoyage: Poltava, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Mimino Hotel-Restaurant
  2. 02
    Riviera Hotel

From Wikivoyage: Poltava, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Poltava

Stations
Poltava Air Base, 6.3 km · Poltava Kyivska, 2.4 km · Poltava-Pivdenna, 3.3 km
  • Moscow → Poltava
    716 km · quickest by road, 22h 40m · ₽4,330–5,800
  • Chişinău → Poltava
    509 km · quickest by road, 15h 29m · $60–85
  • Iaşi → Poltava
    580 km · quickest by road, 15h 58m · lei180–240
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Poltava

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Poltava. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in(Don't confuse them with "marshrutka" which is city transportation, never mind localscan call both a marshrutka).
  • Get inYou can find these minibuses standing at railway stations or (even better) reserve places by phone (see advertisements at bus/train station), optionally a day or a few in advance.
  • Get inBe sure to find your minibus in at least 10-15 minutes before departure, because your reservation may be cancelled.
  • Get aroundIn trolleys, buses and marshrutkas you pay a single fixed price for each trip at each vehicle, no matter how far away you go (within city limits).
  • Get aroundPoltava has a convenient public transport system: 9 trolleybus routes 14 bus routes 34 marshrutka routes Single ride tickets in trolleybuses cost 10 грн, in buses — 12 грн, in marshrutkas — 10-12 грн.

From Wikivoyage: Poltava, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    AbkhaziaGE

    10 ways of moving, 23 sources

    885 km
  2. 02
    Jvari and the Enguri valleyGE

    10 ways of moving, 37 sources

    957 km
  3. 03
    Mestia and Upper SvanetiGE

    10 ways of moving, 14 sources

    960 km
  4. 04
    KutaisiGE

    9 ways of moving, 40 sources

    1,030 km
  5. 05
    GoriGE

    10 ways of moving, 16 sources

    1,123 km

If you know how people move in Poltava – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Poltava

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  • Rozsoshentsivillage in Poltava Raion, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine6.4 km