Kochubey Oaks

Sung by Gogol Poltava Region - Dykanka. She is beautiful at any time of year, but a special charm becomes spring, when riotous color blooming lilac grove and hiding green farm near Dikanki . It is in this place grow mighty oaks Kochubeevskoe that for about 800 years. This is an incredible monument of nature, historical value, are given to us as a gift from our ancestors.

Manor Kochubeev was surrounded by an oak grove. Today there are only four trees: three in a row, decorating once entry to the estate, and one alone, in forestry. Tree height is 20-22 m, and the diameter is 1.5 m. Installed benches next to the mighty giants allow visitors to relax and enjoy the beauty of nature and breathe fresh air.

Popular rumor has it that avenue was planted by Colonel Iskra and Kochubey clerk, the birthday of the latter. If Kochubeevskoe oaks could talk, it would have told a beautiful love story Motril, general clerk`s daughter, and her lover - Hetman Mazepa. It is under the canopy of the trees held their meetings.