politician and statesman. Panas Myrny (1849-1920) a Ukrainian prose writer and playwright Jensen Noen (born 1987) a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, cinematographer and writer. Oleksiy Onyschenko (born 1933) a philosopher, academic and culture theorist Mikhail Ostrogradsky (1801–1862), a Ukrainian mathematician, mechanic and physicist Olena Pchilka (1849–1930), a Ukrainian publisher, writer, ethnographer and civil activist. Ivan Paskevich (1782-1856), Ukrainian military leader in Imperial Russian service. Symon Petliura (1879–1926) a Ukrainian politician, journalist and military leader of Ukraine's struggle for independence following the fall of the Russian Empire in 1917. Zhanna Prokhorenko (1940–2011) a Soviet and Russian actress Sasha Putrya (1977–1989) Ukrainian artist, died aged 11 from leukemia. Svitlana Pyrkalo (born 1976) a London-based writer, journalist and former BBC radio producer Boris Schwanwitsch (1889–1957) a Russian entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. Moshe Zvi Segal (1904–1985), rabbi and activist in Israeli organizations, including Etzel and Lechi. Bert Shefter (1902–1999) a film composer who worked primarily in America. Avraham Shlonsky (1900–1973), Israeli poet and editor Hryhorii Skovoroda (1722–1794) a Ukrainian poet, philosopher and composer Ivan Steshenko (1873–1918), a Ukrainian civic and political activist, writer and Govt. minister. Maria Tarnowska (1877–1949), femme fatale, famously convicted of murder in Venice in 1910. Elias Tcherikower (1881–1943), a Jewish historian of Judaism and the Jewish people. Alina Treiger (born 1979) the first female rabbi to be ordained in Germany since WWII. Yelena Ubiyvovk (1918–1942) a partisan and leader of a Komsomol cell during WWII. Paisius Velichkovsky (1722–1794), Eastern Orthodox monk and theologian, promoted staretsdom Nikolai Yaroshenko (1846–1898) a Ukrainian painter of portraits, genre paintings and drawings. Sport Leonid Bartenyev (1933–2021) a 100 metre team silver medallist at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics Sergei Diyev (born 1958) a Russian football manager and former player with over 600 club caps Serhiy Konovalov (born 1972) a football coach and former footballer with 270 club caps and 22 for Ukraine Oleksandr Melaschenko (born 1978) a football striker with over 320 club caps and 16 for Ukraine Ruslan Rotan (born 1981) a former professional footballer with 382 club caps and 100 for Ukraine; now manager of the Ukraine national under-21 football team Ivan Shariy (born 1957) is a former Soviet and Ukrainian footballer with over 500 club caps Economy and infrastructure Transportation Poltava's transportation infrastructure consists of two major train stations with railway links to Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Kremenchuk. Poltava's Kyiv line is electrified and is used by the Poltava Express. The electrification