Korolenko’s grave is located near his homestead, in the city recreation and entertainment park, very close to a steep slope.

  At first the writer was buried in Old Cemetery (now within a territory of Poltava park named after Ivan P. Kotliarevsky) on December 28, 1921. But due to the shutdown of that cemetery the Great Humanist’s remains were exhumed and reburied at Poltava Town Garden (now, the Victory Park) on August 29, 1936.

  In 1940 his wife was buried next to him. In the same year, work on installation of the monument designed by a female sculptor L. A. Blokh, native of Kremenchuk, was started at the writer's grave.

  During The Great Patriotic War the components of the uncompleted memorial were robbed. In the postwar years, several versions of the monument have been developed by another native of Kremenchuk, sculptor Ya. S. Razhba.

  In 1962, a 2 m 15 cm high granite monolith tombstone has been set at the grave. It’s made of a red granite slab; its front flat surface contains a bas-relief portrait of the writer within the bronze oval. Below the bronze bas-relief, Korolenko’s autograph has been inscribed. The authors of the monument are sculptor N. V. Krandiyevska, architects V. A. Pasichny and L. S. Weinhort.

  The grave of Korolenko and his wife belongs to the Korolenko Literary Memorial Museum complex.