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Poltava ( Ukrainian, Russian: Полта́ва, ) is a city located on the Vorskla River in central Ukraine. It is the capital city of the Poltava Oblast ( province) and of the surrounding Poltava Raion ( district) of the oblast. Poltava's estimated population is 294,962 .
Poltava may refer to:
- Poltava, a city in Ukraine, and Poltava Airbase
- Battle of Poltava, 1709
- Poltava (ship)
- Poltava, a poem by Alexander Pushkin
The Poltava is an old Ukrainian dual-purpose breed of chicken named after the Ukrainian city of Poltava. It includes three color varieties: Clay, Cuckoo, and Black.
Poltava is a narrative poem written by Aleksandr Pushkin in 1828-9 about the involvement of the Ukrainian Cossack hetman Ivan Mazepa in the 1709 Battle of Poltava between Sweden and Russia. The poem intertwines a love plot between Mazepa and Maria with an account of Mazepa's betrayal of Tsar Peter I and Peter's victory in battle. Although often considered one of Pushkin's lesser works and critiqued as unabashedly imperialistic, a number of critics have praised the poem for its depth of characterization and its ability to synthesize disparate genres. The poem inspired Tchaikovsky's 1884 opera Mazeppa.
At least seven ships of the Imperial Russian and Soviet Navies have been named Poltava after the Russian victory in the Battle of Poltava:
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- 52-gun ship of the line
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- 66-gun ship of the line
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- 66-gun ship of the line
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- 110-gun ship of the line
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- 84-gun ship of the line
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- pre-dreadnought battleship captured by the Japanese during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, sold back to the Russians during World War I, renamed Chesma as there was a new Poltava in the Russian Navy, and ultimately scrapped by the Soviets in 1924
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- that participated in World War I and World War II before being scrapped in 1949
Usage examples of "poltava".
Vassilyevich Gogol was born on April 1, 1809, in the village of Sorochintsy, Mirgorod district, Poltava province, in the Ukraine, also known as Little Russia.
Mikita, who went off to the Poltava market every two weeks and cracked such jokes that good people held their sides from laughter.
He died in December 1921 in Poltava, which during the last few years of his life had more than once been taken and retaken by the various parties in the civil war.
As soon as we were installed, we and another armored train went to Kharol, 100 kilometers west of Poltava, where we did some firing practice to get acquainted with our new guns.
Kharkov recaptured, was stuck in the mud outside Poltava, a hundred fifty kilometers away.
The name of the glorious hetman, who had almost destroyed Peter the Great at the battle of Poltava, glittered in gold letters on a sky-blue silk standard.
Since this was signed I have seen that the Russians are even endeavouring to take away your airfields which are located at Poltava and elsewhere behind their lines.
Beyond the steppes which encompass the whole southern seacoast of Russia, from the Sea of Azof to the Danube, there spreads far inland a fertile region, embracing the whole or part of the Governments of Podolia, Poltava, Kharkof, Kief, Voronei, Don Cossacks, etc.
Odessa was thus reduced to the trade of the region to the west of the last-named river, having lost that of the provinces of Poltava, Kharkof, Kursk, Orel, Ekaterinoslaf, etc.
The father managed the estate of a wealthy landowner in Poltava and lived apart from his family.