Accordingly, King Charles XII of Sweden was welcomed as an ally in the Ottoman Empire following his defeat by the Russians at the Battle of Poltava in 1709 ( part of the Great Northern War of 1700 – 1721.

Thirty years earlier, Stanisław had been installed as king of Poland by King Charles XII of Sweden during his period of dominance in the early part of the Great Northern War, and was ousted following the Battle of Poltava by the victorious Russians.

It is still unknown when Poltava was founded, although the town was not attested before 1174.

In 1648, Poltava was captured by the Ruthenian-Polish magnate Jeremi Wiśniowiecki ( 1612 – 51 ).

After the pro-Polish hetman Ivan Vyhovsky came to power and a civil war broke out, In 1658 Poltava, under polkovnyk Martyn Pushkar, was the leading town of the rebels.

In World War II, the Wehrmacht occupied Poltava from late October 1941 until September 23, 1943, when it was retaken during the Lower Dnieper Offensive.

After Poltava, the initial anti-Swedish coalition was re-established and subsequently joined by Hanover and Prussia.

Charles was crushingly defeated by a larger Russian force under Peter in the Battle of Poltava and fled to the Ottoman Empire while the remains of his army surrendered at Perevolochna.

Lysenko, the son of Denis and Oksana Lysenko, was born to a peasant family in Karlivka, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine and attended the Kiev Agricultural Institute.

By the time of the decisive Battle of Poltava, Charles had been wounded, one-third of his infantry was dead, and his supply train was destroyed.

The Swedish defeat at Poltava is considered by some historians to be the point where the downfall of the Swedish Empire was consummated and the Russian Empire was founded.

Charles's first action was to lay siege to the fort of Poltava on the Vorskla River in Ukraine.

Rundstedt was now 65 and not in good health-he was a heavy smoker, and in October in Poltava he suffered a mild heart attack.

Ostrogradsky was born in Pashennaya ( Пашенная ), Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire ( today Pashenivka, Kozelshchyna Raion, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine ).

Beregovoy was born on April 15, 1921, in Fedorivka, Poltava Oblast, Soviet Union ( now Ukraine ).

Ornstein was born in Kremenchuk, a large town in the Ukrainian province of Poltava, then under Imperial Russian rule.

When at last, after the catastrophe of Poltava in June 1709 and the flight into Turkey, he condescended to use diplomatic methods, it was solely to prolong, not to terminate, the war.

He continues this work until his death in 1709 when he was killed by a cannon-ball in the Battle of Poltava.

The Pereshchepina hoard was discovered in 1912 by Ukrainian peasants in the vicinity of Poltava, yielding, gold and silver objects of total weight of 75 kg, including a ring which eventually allowed identification of the grave as that belonging to Khan Kubrat.

Following the Battle of Poltava, Peter I granted to soldiers of Greater Belgorod the regiment flag.

Peter the Great visited it on the eve of the Battle of Poltava, and a dragoon regiment was stationed in the town until 1917.

It then was subordinated to the main army that fought at Holovczyn, Malatitze and finally at the Battle of Poltava, where the regiment surrendered to the Russians.

As a result, some Cossacks, led by Iakiv Barabash, put forward an alternative candidate for the hetmancy in Martyn Pushkar, the colonel of the Poltava regiment of Cossacks.

After the Battle of Poltava in 1709, the regiment was present at the capitulation in Perevolochna.

After the uprising of the Semenovsky regiment in 1820 he transferred as a Lieutenant Colonel to Poltava regiment, in 1822 to Chernigov regiment.

After the uprising of the Semenovsky regiment he was transferred to the Poltava infantry regiment.

Two professional football teams are based in the city: Vorskla Poltava in the Ukrainian Premier League and FC Poltava in the Second League.

During his years 1895-1901 in the Russian Orthodox Seminary in Poltava, Petliura joined the Ukrainian Revolutionary Party ( RUP ) in 1898.

Several cities, including Kiev, the Ukrainian capital and Poltava, the city of his birth, have erected monuments to Petliura, with a museum complex also being planned in Poltava.

In the 2010 local elections the parties electoral misfortunes continued, winning few votes and securing little to no representatives in regional parliaments across Ukraine ( winning representatives in 11 Ukrainian Oblasts parliaments in total ), except in the Chernihiv Oblast and Poltava Oblast where they won 11 % and 5, 8 % of the votes.

Lysenko was born in Hrynky, Kremenchuk Povit, Poltava Governorate, the son of Vitaliy Romanovych Lysenko ( Ukrainian: Віталій Романович Лисенко ).

In standard Ukrainian pronunciation ( based on the Poltava dialect ), Ve represents a sound like the English W () when in the word final position.

The alienation of Mazepa from Ukrainian history continued during the Soviet period as well as in the present day, an example of which is the refusal in 2008 of the Poltava city council to erect a monument of Mazepa in Poltava choosing instead a monument glorifying the defeat of Mazepa in the Battle of Poltava.

Late August 2009 Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko demanded the resuming of a halted construction of an Ivan Mazepa monument in Poltava.

Barksdale began a friendship with Ukrainian Air Force airmen later in 1994, when a B-52 and KC-10 visited Poltava Air Base, Ukraine.

Born in Poltava on 19 May 1782, to a well-known family of the Ukrainian Cossack gentry, he was educated at the imperial institution for pages, where his progress was rapid, and in 1800 received his commission in the Guards and was named aide-de-camp to the tsar.

Despite a remarkable post-war recovery and a healthier economy, Kremenchuk lacks much of the architectural charm and distinctly Ukrainian ( rather than Russian ) character of its sister city, the oblast capital of Poltava.

The term kobza is of Turkic origin and is related to the terms kobyz and komuz, thought to have been introduced into the Ukrainian language in the 13th century with the migration of a sizable group of Turkic people from Abkhazia settling in the Poltava region.

His wife " Grigan, Elena Titovna " ( 1893 birth ), Ukrainian, from the village of Martynivka ( Kishenkovsky municipality, province of Poltava ).

The Petty Council adopted the Law " About the Ukrainian Constituent Assembly " where was established its composition of 301 members: Kiev Governorate-45, Volyn Governorate-30, Podillya Governorate-30, Yekaterinoslav Governorate-36, Poltava Governorate-30, Kherson Governorate-34, Kharkiv Governorate-35, Tavria Governorate-9, Chernihiv Governorate-27, Ostrohozh district-15.

Vadym Petrovych Hetman was born in the village of Snityn, located in Poltava Oblast ( at the time, the Ukrainian SSR ), in 1935.

In 1900 Vynnychenko joined the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party ( RUP ) and enrolled in the law department at Kiev University, but in 1903 he was expelled for participation in revolutionary activities among the Kievan workers and peasants from Poltava and jailed for several months in Lukyanivska Prison.

Honey from several Ukrainian farms is used, including farms from Poltava and Cherkasy regions, and from Crimea and Carpathians.

Pavlo Arhypovych Zahrebelnyi () or Zagrebelnyi () ( Soloshyne village, Poltava Oblast, August 25, 1924 – Kiev, February 3, 2009 ) was a Ukrainian novelist.