The park is named after Alexander Sergeevich Shcherbakov,[2] who was the Secretary of the Donetsk Oblast Party Committee in 1938.
[3] The park is located in Skoromoshnaya gully, which was the meeting place for workers of Yuzovsky metallurgical plant and the nearby coal mines in the 19th century.
In 1891 the river was blocked by a dam, resulting in a first city pond that provided the steel works with water.
120 hectares of the open steppe land area near river Bakhmutka (First city pond) in the Skomoroshnaya gully was allocated for the park.
The park is located along the coastline of connected ponds, and landscape compositions, most open to the water area direction.
The stadium Shakhtar is built on the upper terrace in 1936 (designed by architects Georgy Nawrocki and S. Severin).
White statue of Joseph Stalin[4] was established in front of the bridge framed in acacia and dominated over the whole complex of the central park.
Also in 2008, in order to commemorate the City and the Miner's Day the "Good Angel of Peace" was established in the Park as international symbol of patronage.
On the statue basis the names of famous Ukrainian patrons are carved: Nickolay Tereshchenko, Bogdan Khanenko, Vasiliy Tarnovskiy, Rinat Akhmetov and others.
Due to the World War II outbreak, Kirov Children's Railway ceased to exist and was never rebuilt.