Poltava

Poltava
/pul tah"veuh/, n.
a city in E Ukraine, SW of Kharkov: Russian defeat of Swedes 1709. 309,000.

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      city, east-central Ukraine. It lies along the Vorskla River. Archaeological evidence dates the city from the 8th to the 9th century, although the first documentary reference is from 1174, when it was variously known as Oltava or Ltava. Destroyed by the Tatars in the early 13th century, it was the centre of a Cossack regiment by the 17th century. In 1709 Peter I the Great inflicted a crushing defeat on Charles XII of Sweden outside Poltava after Charles had laid siege to the town for three months. In 1802 it became a provincial centre.

      The modern city of Poltava is largely new, having been reconstructed after it suffered severe damage during World War II. It is the focus of a fertile agricultural region and has a range of industries processing farm produce. One of the largest cotton mills in Ukraine was built for the city's textile and clothing industries. Important engineering works have engaged in diesel-locomotive repair and machine building. Poltava has teacher-training, medical, agricultural, and agricultural-engineering institutes, and several research establishments. Pop. (2001) 317,998; (2005 est.) 309,960.

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