Editing Poltava (section)

===19th century===
[[File:City of Poltava 1857 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Map of Poltava 1857]]
[[File:Хресна хода в Полтаві 1909.jpg|thumb|The 200th Anniversary celebrations of the Battle of Poltava in June 1909]]
On 2 February 1808, the Poltava Male Gymnasium was established.<ref name=hop/> On 20 June 1808 some 54 families of craftsmen were invited to the city from German principalities and settled in the newly established German Sloboda neighborhood with about 50 clay-made houses.<ref name=hop/> In 1810 there were 8,328 people living in Poltava;<ref name=hop/> that same year, the city's first theater was built.<ref name=hop/> In August 1812, on orders of Little Russia Governor General [[Yakov Lobanov-Rostovsky (1760–1831)|Lobanov-Rostovsky]], the famed Ukrainian writer and statesman [[Ivan Kotlyarevsky]] formed the 5th Poltava Cavalry Cossack Regiment.<ref name=hop/>

By 1860, Poltava had around 30,000 inhabitants, a district school, a gymnasium, an [[Institute for Noble Maidens]], a spiritual academy, a [[cadet corps]], a library and a number of schools. In 1870, [[Poltava-Pivdenna railway station|Poltava railway station]] was opened, leading to rapid economic growth in the region. However, by 1914 the Population of Poltava (around 60,000) was mostly working in small enterprises. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries Poltava became an important cultural centre, where many representatives of [[Ukrainian National Revival|Ukrainian national revival]] were active.