Kharkiv region and Poltava region were connected with each other by pedagogical experiments of the father-founder of Soviet pedagogy A.S. Makarenko. Not far from Poltava in Kovalevka was located with 1920 for 1926 year labor colony for juvenile offenders to them. M. Gorky.

The Nikopol region is the cradle of Scythia and the historical center of the Zaporozhye Cossacks. It is on this land that the great king of the Scythian Athei empire is buried, it was here that the Golden Pectoral was discovered - a symbol of the ancient history of Ukraine, precisely from here the spirit of free Cossacks spread throughout Ukraine.