Editing Poltava (section)

===20th century===
[[File:Музей дальньої авіації.jpg|thumb|The [[Poltava Museum of Long-Range and Strategic Aviation]]]]
During the [[Ukrainian War of Independence|events of 1917–1920]], Poltava was under the rule of a number of governments, including the [[Central Rada]], [[Ukrainian State|Hetmanate]], [[Ukrainian People's Republic]], [[White Movement]] and [[Bolshevik]]s. From 1918 to 1919 there was [[occupation of Poltava by the Bolsheviks (1918—1919)|Occupation of Poltava by the Bolsheviks]]. After becoming a part of [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic]], Poltava experienced accelerated industrial growth, and its population increased to 130,000 by 1939.

In [[World War II]], the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] ''[[Wehrmacht]]'' [[Reichskommissariat Ukraine|occupied]] Poltava from 18 September 1941 until 23 September 1943, when it was retaken during the Chernigov-Poltava Strategic Offensive of the [[Battle of the Dnieper]]. During the Nazi occupation the Jewish population (9.9% of the total population in 1939) was imprisoned in a [[ghetto]] before being murdered during mass executions perpetrated by an [[Einsatzgruppen|Einsatzgruppe]] and buried in mass graves in the area.<ref name="yadvashem">{{cite web|url=http://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/index.asp?cid=515|publisher=yadvashem.org|title=The Untold Stories. The Murder Sites of the Jews in the Occupied Territories of the Former USSR|access-date=18 June 2017}}</ref> 

By the summer of 1944, the [[United States Army Air Forces]] conducted a number of [[shuttle bombing]] raids against Nazi Germany under the name of [[Operation Frantic]]. [[Poltava Air Base]], as well as [[Myrhorod Air Base]], were used as eastern locations for landing [[Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress|B-17 Flying Fortress]] heavy bombers involved in those operations.{{cn|date=June 2022}}

The post-war restoration of Poltava continued in the 1950s and 1960s. The city became an important centre of military education in the [[Soviet Union]], where missile and communications officers were prepared, and was also home to a [[Soviet Air Force]] division of heavy bombers.{{cn|date=June 2022}}

Until 18 July 2020, Poltava was designated as a [[City of regional significance (Ukraine)|city of oblast significance]] and did not belong to Poltava Raion even though it was the center of the raion. As part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Poltava Oblast to four, the city was merged into Poltava Raion.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ.|url=http://www.golos.com.ua/article/333466|access-date=2020-10-03|date=2020-07-18|website=Голос України|language=uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Нові райони: карти + склад |date=17 July 2020 |url=https://www.minregion.gov.ua/press/news/novi-rajony-karty-sklad/ |publisher=Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України |language=uk}}</ref>