. . . "Poltava Oblast (Ukrainian: \u041F\u043E\u043B\u0442\u0430\u0432\u0441\u044C\u043A\u0430 \u043E\u0431\u043B\u0430\u0441\u0442\u044C, translit. Poltavs\u2019ka oblast\u2019; also referred to as Poltavshchyna \u2013 Ukrainian: \u041F\u043E\u043B\u0442\u0430\u0432\u0449\u0438\u043D\u0430) is an oblast (province) of central Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Poltava.Other important cities within the oblast include: Komsomolsk, Kremenchuk, Lubny and Myrhorod."@en .