Reserve "Field of the Poltava Battle"

National reserve "Field of Poltava battle" is located in the Ukrainian city of Poltava. The reserve was organized at the suggestion of local historian I. Pavlovsky in 1909 on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Battle of Poltava. The reserve was built on the field where the battle took place, its total area is 771.5 hectares.

On the territory of the reserve there is the Museum of the Poltava Battle, which presents more than eight thousand unique exhibits related to the history of the Poltava Battle, as well as the entire Northern War in general. In the halls of the museum you can see portraits and engravings, old books, various types of cold and firearms, flags, maps, medals, coins, uniforms, some personal belongings of Peter I and so on. In front of the entrance to the museum stands a monument to Peter I in full growth.

In the reserve you can see the Sampsonian Church of the XIX century with a unique painting, a mass grave with a monument in which 1345 dead Russian soldiers are buried, as well as obelisks installed on the places where Peter I ordered to erect redoubts.

In the arboretum of 140 hectares there is an opportunity to admire trees and shrubs, of which there are more than 150 species. The reserve also contains ancient settlements and more than 30 mounds dating back to the I thousand years BC and to the I thousand years of our era.