Description: Yuriy Kondratyuk (Alexander Shargey) belongs to the cohort of scientists who were first to have predicted space exploration. Enthusiasts, who were researching with this issue, were considered to be hopeless dreamers, and sometimes were simply laughed at. The same thing happened to Yuriy Kondratyuk. 

Working hardly over this problem and constantly improving his manuscripts, Y . Kondratyuk has become generally recognized theorist of cosmonautics with his non-standard, original thinking. As a result, nowadays his name levels the names of such outstanding scientists as K. Tsyolkovskyi, F. Tsander, R. Hoddard, H. Obert.

Y. Kondratyuk museum of aircraft and cosmonautics was opened on the 23rd of September, 2001 in the memorial house that was built in 1810. Among the other museums of Poltava it stands out for its originality and unusual tendency.

In the exposition of the museum there are unique materials about scientists, engineers, aerospace constructors, pilots, cosmonauts whose lives and activities were connected with Poltava.

Among them are: O. M. Zasyadko, a scientist, artilleryman, constructor of the military equipment; O.M. Kovanko, a founder of military aerostatics etc.

Museum expositions are represented with more that 4000 exhibits and scientific archive that consists of 5000 items.