| Mode |
Comments |
| Air |
Poltava can be reached by internal flights from Kiev and other cities within Ukraine. |
| Road |
Poltava is reached by main roads in its section of Ukraine. See distance table below. These distances are based on main roads wherever possible. For distances to other cities in Ukraine, compute the distances through Kiev. |
| Train |
Poltava can be reached by train from Kiev, Kharkiv and other major cities in Ukraine. |
Road distances from Poltava to:
| City |
Oblast |
Kilometers |
Miles |
| Chernihiv |
Chernihiv |
487 |
302 |
| Dnepropetrovsk |
Dnepropetrovsk |
208 |
129 |
| Donetsk |
Donetsk |
367 |
228 |
| Kharkiv |
Kharkiv |
151 |
81 |
| Kherson |
Kherson |
689 |
428 |
| Kiev |
Kiev |
343 |
213 |
| Kirovograd |
Kirovograd |
253 |
157 |
| Lugansk |
Lugansk |
482 |
299 |
| Melitopol |
Zaporizhia |
427 |
265 |
| Mykolaiv |
Mykolaiv |
755 |
469 |
| Odessa |
Odessa |
578 |
359 |
| Simferopol |
Crimea |
618 |
384 |
| Sumy |
Sumy |
167 |
104 |
| Zaporizhia |
Zaporizhia |
314 |
195 |
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Geographic Information
Territory 28,800 sq. km
Population 1,752,800 (urban population 58.3%)
The Poltava region as an administrative and economic territorial unit was formed on September 22, 1937. The region is distributed in a forest/steppe zone. Forests cover 7.4% of its territory. Soils are mainly medium humus chernozems.
The region territory is crossed by 89 rivers with a total length of 5453 km. The Dnieper is the main water artery. All the rivers (the Vorksla, Sula, Psyol, Oril' being the longest ones) belong to the Dnieper basin and are its left tributaries. In the south and southwest the region is washed by waters of the Kremenchuk and Dnieprodzerzhinsk reservoirs. There are many artificial water bodies and lakes. Their total area reaches 21 thousand hectares. The railway lines and developed network of motor roads cross the region's territory.
The city of Poltava is the regional center with a population of 323,600 people.
The largest cities of regional subordination are as follows: Kremenchuh-247,700, Lubny-60,800, Komsomolsk-58,400, and Myrhorod-47,700 people. back to top
Agriculture
Agriculture, characterized by developed production of grain, milk, and industrial crops, forms the basis of the region agroindustrial complex.
For the recent five years the economy has been reorganized on the basis of property reformation. Nowadays 397 collective farms are in operation in the agricultural sector (private lease enterprises 8, cooperative ones 2; private share ones 16) as well as 17 agrofirms, 53 stock companies, 11 agroassociations, 27 farmers' societies, 25 state enterprises, and 42 interfarm associations.
The lands of agricultural complex total 2,180,700 hectares, 90% of the area being composed of chernozems. The output of certain kinds of agricultural products in the region in 1997 (in thou. tons) was as follows: grain 1659, sugar beets 1425.2; sun flower seeds 117.5; potatoes 18.5; vegetables 24.7; and fruits and berries 115.7.
The average yield of these crops are, respectively (centners for hectare): grain 21.2; sugar beet 170.0; sunflower 9.1; and vegetables 143.3.
Private farms were created and developed in the recent years, 34,300 hectares of agricultural land being allotted to them. An average farm owns 25 hectares. The farmers expand their production every year, as they gain experience in commodity production.
Cattle breeding is traditional in the Poltava region. All the categories of farms (including the private sector) keep 706,900 head of cattle, including 291,000 cows, almost 575,600 swine and 79,400 sheep and goats, and about 5,800 head of poultry.
All the region farms produced 129.700 tons of meat, 678,500 tons of milk, 422,900 eggs, and 55.1 tons of wool last year.
The Poltava region has one of the largest stock breeding bases in Ukraine with 25 cattle breeding farms and 30 farms for breeding white and Myrhorod swine.
Researchers of the Poltava Swine Breeding Institute have developed Ukrainian meat breed of swine with a daily weight gain of 750-800g under the demand of 3.4-3.6 fodder units per 1kg of weight gain, which exceeds the characteristics of breeds available.
Horse breeding is developed at eight stud farms. Horses of the Dibriv Stable in the Myrhorod district are well known beyond the borders of Ukraine.
Scientists of the Poltava Agricultural Institute have developed new varieties of wheat whose characteristics and parameters surpass those of traditional ones.back to top
Foreign Economic Relations
Export deliveries of goods by enterprises and organizations of the region are
effected to 68 countries all over the world. The largest share falls to the
export to Russian Federation, Austria, Belarus', Romania, Belgium, Poland,
Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic. Deliveries of ore, transportation facilities
and their parts, and oil products dominated in the goods structure of
exports.
Almost 100 organizations of the region export services. The main services provided by the region's enterprises were transport services and repair of capital funds (99% of the total sum of service export). The dominant volumes of such services were rendered for Russia, Moldova, France, and Turkey. The region's enterprises have rendered 32 kinds of services to their foreign partners from 64 countries and simultaneously have made use of 51 kinds of services from 36 countries of the world.
As to the estimate of 1.01.98, 29 countries of the world have directly invested US$37 million in the region's economy. Capital of Italy, Cyprus, the USA, Great Britain, and Bulgaria were the most active ones. Machine engineering and metal working, and food and fuel industries were the investment priority trends.
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Industry
The region possesses essential economic potential and takes an active part in the state territorial division of labor. That is helped by the availability of deposits of minerals: iron ore, oil, natural gas, mineral structural materials such as clay, sand, granite, ochre, etc.
The region is also rich in medicinal mineral water.
The region economy is of diversified character of industry and agriculture.
The region's share in the general state industrial products is 3.6%, that in agricultural products 5.1%.
The gross product structure of the region is as follows: industry 67.1%, agriculture and forestry 17.1%, capital construction 6.9%, transport and communication 3.3%, trade and public catering 3.1%, others 2.5%.
Industry is the leading force in the economic structure. The region possesses 359 enterprises of various forms of ownership, with 170,000 employees.
There are the following basic branches of industry, such as fuel industry, whose specific weight in overall industrial production is 43.4%, food industry 18.6%, machine building and metal working 15.2%, black metallurgy 11.4% .
More than 3 thousand names of industrial products are made in the region. They are KrAZ (Kremenchuk Motor Works) lorries, railway vans, electric motors, gas discharge lamps, diamond instruments, metalcutting machines, technological equipment for the light and food industry, china and earthenware, foot wear, knitted wear, furniture, and many other kinds of industrial and food products.
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Transport and Communication
Transport afforded by its railway, motor, river and air networks is an important factor of production and vital activities of the territorial production complex. The region's railways are 853 km long.
The arterial railways Moscow-Odessa, Kremenchuk-Poltava-Kyiv, and Kremenchuk-Gomel cross the region's territory.
The motor road network is well developed. It includes superhighways Kyiv-Kharkiv, Poltava-Kremenchuk, etc. Motor roads with hard pavement are 8744.4km long, Transportation by the Dnieper is of great significance.
The Kremenchuk river port services freight ships and passenger vessels.
The Poltava airport can handle civil aircraft of all modifications.
The pipeline network is also developed in the Poltava region. The region's territory is crossed by gas mains "Soyuz", "Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod", "Shebelinka-Poltava-Kyiv" and oil mains "Druzhba", "Kremenchuk-Kherson", and "Kremenchuk-Brovary".
The region has a developed network of mail, telephone, and radio relay communications.
The air radio diffusion system was also successfully introduced. Special attention is paid to development of telephone communication. The telephone network counts 251,000 users 224,000 of which can use the self dial long distance telephone service provided by the electron coupling enterprise "Poltavatelecom". The number of users increases especially among those from the countryside. Almost all the users can use the self dial long distance telephone service with about 1000 calls daily.
There are 18 TV stations and 47 transmitters repeating TV programs all over the region.
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