Dormition Cathedral

The wooden church in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin was known from the 80s of the XVII century. At the walls of the then temple in 1687, the hetman detachment of I. Samoilovich, Protopope Ivan Velichkovsky, a famous Ukrainian poet of the Baroque era, 2nd floor, meets.

XVII century, former editor of Chernihiv printing house. In the spring of 1934, by the decision of the Poltava Regional Committee of the CP(b), the city cathedral of St. Uspensky Cathedral was destroyed. On the liberated site, among other things, planned to build garages. Pentaban (from 1780), in the style of Ukrainian Baroque, the Assumption Cathedral belonged to a rare transitional architectural type of city and monastery cathedrals of the late XVIII century.

According to the state program of re-creation of outstanding historical and cultural sights, the Poltava Holy Uspensky Cathedral in 1999 was included in the list of unique attractions of national culture, which are subject to priority renewal.