On Independence Square (in Ukrainian, Maidan Nezalezhnosti) next to the Vorskla Stadium named after Oleksiy Butovsky since June 22, 2008, a monument to the founder of the Olympic movement has been unveiled on October 4, 2006.

  The bust of the Baron born in Poltava who has revived the Olympic Games with Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin in the nineteenth century has been set up with the assistance of Serhiy Bubka, the President of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, member of the International Olympic Committee, in association with Poltava sports organizations, athletes and local enthusiasts for sports.  

  The typical member of intelligentsia of his age: a high-browed, noble man with insightful look, wearing neat bushy mustache with "professorial" beard, pince-nez and dress uniform with General’s epaulettes has been portrayed in bronze in between the sunny alley in front of "Youth" sports complex.