The design of the Poltava Uyezd zemstvo post stamps of 1912 depicts a village street in the village of Hetmanshchyna, Vasylkiv Uyezd, and was produced as a photoreproduction at the Kulzhenko printing house in Kyiv. The typographic version was printed at Podzemsky's typolithography in Poltava, and the numerals were applied by hand stamp at the Zemstvo administrative office.
On March 1, 1903, the Poltava Uyezd zemstvo post (Poltava Governorate) was opened. Mail was dispatched twice a week from the uyezd center, the city of Poltava, to 17 volosts of the uyezd. Zemstvo postage stamps were used to pay for private correspondence: ordinary letters were paid with 3-kopeck stamps, and registered letters with 6-kopeck stamps. They are quite diverse in printing method and purpose (official, for ordinary and registered wrappers, money correspondence, etc.).
In 1908, commemorative stamps were issued for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava.
Many issues depict the uyezd coat of arms. The stamps were printed in private printing houses, and from 1905 at the EZGB.
Imperforate stamps are of unofficial origin and were intended for collectors. The stamps were cancelled with circular, oval, and rectangular handstamps.