It is believed that normalized Ukrainian has been based on 19th century local peasant dialect. But now at least half of the province' population speaks either Russian or its mixture with Ukrainian named Surzhyk. It was mostly a result of industry-related immigration and Russification.
The area of the province is 28,800 kmē; its population (as of 2005-05-01) is 1.6 million people.
315,000), capital of Poltavaregion, E Ukraine, on the Kiev-Kharkiv highway and on the Vorskla River, a tributary of the Dnieper.
Poltava was a flourishing commercial center in the 18th and 19th cent., a principal focus of the Ukrainian literary and national movement, and, under Czar Nicholas I, a place of exile.
Poltava was the home of the writer Nikolai Gogol, many of whose stories are set in the nearby village of Dikanka.
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