During the tour you will discover the most popular attractions of the city including the Field of the Battle of Poltava. Enjoy the welcoming atmosphere of Poltava and learn the most significant facts from the history of Poltava region.

Sightseeing city tour around the city includes the most popular landmarks – a Round Square with the Glory Monument in the middle, a cozy Corpusniy Garden and an interesting building of former peasants bank, decorated with the figures of firebirds with women’s heads. Moreover, you will see an iconic sight of Poltava – the White Rotunda on the Ivanova Mountain, overlooking Vorskla River and The Holy Cross Monastery. Not far from the White Arbor, there is another symbol of the city – Poltava Dumpling Monument, where you may take photo in a huge bowl with «galushki».

During the second part of the tour, you will discover the landmarks related to the famous Battle of Poltava in 1709. You will explore the National Historical-Cultural Reserve «The Field of the Battle of Poltava», including St. Sampsoniy Church, memorial signs – «To Swedes from Russians» and «To Swedes from Swedes» and the Monument to the Defenders of the Poltava Fortress. Moreover, you will see the monument to the Peter I in front of the Poltava Battle History Museum.

Founded in 17th century, today Kharkiv is the second most-populated city of Ukraine after Kyiv. The city is known for a big number of high educational institutions and is an important cultural and economic center of Ukraine.

During the tour you will visit the main church of the city – Annunciation Cathedral with an elaborated exterior. Another point of interest is Assumption Cathedral with a high Bell tower. Moreover, you will visit Pokrovsky male monastery and discover its history.

Discover one of the symbols of the city – the Mirror Steam Fountain, located on the Sumskaya Street, facing the Kharkiv Theater of Opera and Ballet.

One of the biggest squares of Europe is situated in Kharkiv – Svobody (Freedom) Square with its highlight – the building of Gosprom (Derzhprom) – the first skyscraper of the city and an example of constructivism style in architecture. The building of the State Kharkiv University also faces Freedom Square.

Svyatogirsk Lavra is incredibly marvelous architectural ensemble in the style of mature classicism. It is situated on the right bank of the river Siversky Donets on the Holy Mountains among beautiful hills, densely covered with forests. The main feature of the ensemble is Grand Cathedral of the Assumption and in the center there is Pokrovsky Chruch with bell tower and main entrance into the monastery. Its blue dome, decorated with golden stars, serves as a peculiar pharos for numerous pilgrims. Since old times churches and cells of the Lavra hid ascetics reliably. The quantity of the underground halls and cave structures amazes – 2.5thousand of square kilometers. With time passing the rock collapsed and three upper tiers disappeared. Remaining two lower tiers amaze the visitors not less. For a long time Cave Church of St. Nicholas carved in the depth of Cretaceous rock served as the main temple. Till our time 400-meter cave entrance into the rock part is preserved. Its width is only 60 meters. Svyatogirsk Holy Assumption Monastery became the fifth Lavra in the Orthodox world and one of the largest in Eastern Ukraine.

During the tour you will discover the unique open-air exhibition of locomotives, passenger cars, freight wagons and railway equipment at the Museum of History and Technology of the Southern Railway in Kharkiv. You will also learn the history of the development of Southern railway from the end of the 19th century until the present days.

The unique collection of the museum is located both in the exhibition halls and on the open-air grounds. You will be surprised to see a great number of locomotives, passenger cars, railroad technique and freight wagons, displayed in the museum. The highlight of the exhibition is a Felix Dzerzhinsky mainline freight steam-engine locomotive that was being produced in the USSR from 1931 until 1941.

You’ll be able get inside of the salons of some passenger cars and explore their interior finishing. Moreover, you will see three interesting statues – a railway pointer, a passenger and a station duty officer, made especially for this museum.

When you visit the indoor exhibition halls, you will discover an amazing display of the models of railway machines and track, created by a talented collector and modeler B. Fedorov. It includes the layout of the railway station, small copies of the carriages, semaphores and rail crossings.

In addition, you will see the display of the pictures portraying the crash of the imperial train of the Alexander III and his family in 1888 and learn the history of their miraculous rescue.