Within the limits of the old Poltava fortress in place of Podol'skogo bastion to the 200-years-old anniversary of the Poltava battle building without which present Poltava does not present the city — White Arbour was erected in 1909. Building reminds Poltava, that exactly here on the second day after the Poltava battle, meeting of artisans of city took place with a tsar by Peter I. Non-random is a form of Arbour — podkovoobraznaya. In obedience to legend, a local blacksmith on this area masterly shod tsar's horse which lost a horseshoe during the Poltava fight. Exactly this legend stipulated original appearance of building — a horseshoe is bent the edges to Uspenskomu Cathedral, placed on the columns of the Dorian warrant. In the years of Great Patriotic war fascist invaders took apart Arbour, arranging a zenithal-artillery point in her place. The main architect of post-war Poltava Leo Vayngort incarnates in 1954 the idea of proceeding in a reminder the project. Podkovoobraznaya colonnade from eight in nine meters high recreated a colon former Arbour, with a that only difference, that new building was got by the new name is «Rotunda of Friendship», — in honour the «300-years-old anniversary of reunion of Ukraine and Russia». To date among most Poltava, building is remembered under the former historical name is White Arbour., which completes the Poltava plateau of Ivanovoy of Mountain. From a wonderful kind is here opened on the valley of the river Vorskla and part of city: Poltava Hem, vorsklyanskuyu Levadu. On the sides of Arbour the nearby Poltava hills are perfectly visible — Monasterial with the outlines of Krestovozdvizhenskoy of monastery and Institute Hill, adopted so in the first quarter of a XIX century, since Institute of noble maidens was opened.