Poltava Oblast · Ukraine
Poltava travel guide
Poltava is a city in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine, home to about 283,000 people.
- Best months
- May to September
- Currency
- UAHhryvnia
- Time zone
- Europe/Kyiv
- Language
- Ukrainian
About
About Poltava
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.
The municipal administration has been cleaning up the city centre clear and making it look more like a European city than a Soviet one. Its residents are proud of their city, and call it "a city where one wants to live in". In the 1709 battle of Poltava, Russian czar Peter the Great defeated Swedish king Charles XII (see Swedish Empire). In the following treaties, Russia annexed most Swedish territories east of the Baltic Sea including Saint Petersburg, marking the rise of the Russian Empire as a great power.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Poltava
See
- Svyato-Panteleymonivska Church
- Voznesenskaya church
- Khrestovozdvyzhenskyi (Holy Cross) monastery
- Samsonovskaya church
- 'Light of Life' church
- Panteleymonivska Ukrainian Orthodox Church
- 'Flag of Khrysta' church
- Synagogue
- Former Chorale synagogue
- Aircraft Museum
- Poltava Battle History Museum
- Poltava Art Museum (Gallery)
Do
- Botanical Garden of the Poltava State Korolenko Pedagogical University
- City Park
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When to go
The best time to visit Poltava
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Poltava are May to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 28 °C; July is the wettest, with about 59 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Poltava
Getting in
Train and bus are the only reasonable ways to get to Poltava (unless you have your own car), and ticket price is roughly equal. Four railway lines coming out west, east, south and southeast from Poltava. Usually there would be a few trains per day to your selected destination, see the website of Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian railways) for timetable and ticket prices.
Getting around
It would be a good idea to have an acquaintance with a bilingual local person who will give you advice on how & where to go around Poltava. Most of city transport operates between 06:00 and 22:00 on major routes, and only until 20:00-21:00 to suburbs. During other hours from this, take a taxi. There are crowded routes, where you may not be able to get a seat. During rush hours (06:00-09:00, 17:00-18:00 and possibly throughout the day on suburb routes) you may loss up to 1 hour of your time due to municipal transport being filled up.
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Questions
Poltava: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Poltava?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Poltava are May to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 28 °C; July is the wettest, with about 59 mm of rain.
What currency is used in Poltava?
hryvnia (UAH).
Nearby
Destinations near Poltava
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.