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2 unusual facts about Poltava


Aida Imanguliyeva

Professor A. Imanguliyeva presented oriental studies of Azerbaijan in countries of the Middle East and in other foreign countries (Moscow, Kiev, Poltava, Saint Petersburg, Galle and etc.).

Athanasios Psalidas

He continued his studies in Russian Empire (now Ukraine, Poltava) in Slavic Poltava Seminary (1785–1787) and in Austria (1787–1795).


560th Flying Training Squadron

At one point the squadron carried out shuttle bombing missions from England to Germany to Poltava, USSR, to Foggia, Italy, and back to England.

Atracom

Maintenance Centre №6 - Kharkiv, Sumy, Konotop, Poltava, Lozova, Kupyansk, Izum, Kremenchuk, Khorol

Baranivka

Baranivka, Shyshaky Raion, Poltava Oblast, a village in Shyshatskyi District of Poltava Oblast

Battle of Poltava

Peter Englund, The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire.

Ioasaph of Belgorod

Born at Pryluky, in the province of Poltava (modern-day Ukraine), Joachim Gorlenko was the son of Colonel Andrei Dmitrievich Gorlenko of the Pryluky Regiment by his marriage to Maria Danylovna, a daughter of Danylo Apostol (1654–1734), a significant military leader and Hetman of the Cossack Hetmanate from 1727 until his death.

Iosif Pogrebyssky

He played several times in Ukrainian Chess Championship, and took 3rd at Poltava 1927 (Alexey Selezniev won), took 5th at Odessa 1928 (Yakov Vilner won), shared 1st at Kiev 1936, took 2nd, behind Fedor Bogatyrchuk, at Kiev 1937, and tied for 2nd-3rd at Kiev 1949 (Isaac Lipnitsky won).

Ivan Vyhovsky

As a result, some Cossacks, led by Iakiv Barabash, put forward an alternative candidate for the hetmancy in Martyn Pushkar, the colonel of the Poltava regiment of Cossacks.

Marusia Churai

She was a native of Poltava, and is regarded as the author as well as the subject of the well-known Ukrainian folk song "Oi Ne Khody Hrytsiu Tai na Vechornytsi" (Hryts, Don't Go to the Evening Dances) known in the West as the song "Yes, My Darling Daughter".

Mytrofan Yavdas

On 8 September 1929, he was arrested by the OGPU as part of a Soviet anti-religious campaign and confined in the Poltava prison.

Petropavlovsk-class battleship

The capture of Hill 203, which overlooked the harbor, on 5 December allowed them to fire directly at the Russian ships and Poltava was sunk in shallow water that same day by a shell that started a fire in a magazine that eventually exploded.

Postage stamps and postal history of Ukraine

In 1918 Russian stamps were overprinted with a trident for use in Kiev, Odessa, Yekaterinoslav, Kharkiv, Poltava, Podolia, and Kherson.

Serhii Vasylkivsky

Vasylkivsky created three large panels for the Poltava Zemstvo (Provincial Land Administration) building which was designed by the Ukrainian architect Vasyl Krychevsky: The Chumak Road to Romodan, Election of Pushkar, The Duel of Cossack Holota with a Tatar.

Symon Petliura

News of Petliura’s assassination in the summer of 1926 was marked by numerous revolts in eastern Ukraine particularly in Boromlia, Zhehailivtsi, (Sumy province), Velyka Rublivka, Myloradov (Poltava province), Hnylsk, Bilsk, Kuzemyn and all along the Vorskla River from Okhtyrka to Poltava, Burynia, Nizhyn (Chernihiv province) and other cities.

Volodymyr Kabachok

Born in the village of Petrivka, in the Poltava region, Kabachok became a singer in the Archbishop's choir in Poltava until 1907 when he entered the Poltava music college.


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