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poltava (enc)
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Poltava Located between Kharkiv and Kyiv in the Ukraine, Poltova is not much of a tourist destination. The city is probably best known as the site of a 1709 battle between the Russians and the Swedes and Cossacks, which established Russia’s position in Europe and Ukraine’s decline. The battlefield and its monuments are the major draw. A museum displays the rather large uniform of Czar Peter, who was unusually tall. In town, visit the October Park, the gun-barrel-shaped Column of Glory and the Spassky Church, which is actually an outer shell protecting an earlier, wooden church inside.
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