It is surrounded by the following buildings and monuments: In the 19th century, the space of several hundred square meters from the perimeter of the current Stefan cel Mare Avenue.

[6] During the Soviet Moldovan era, parades were held on this square in honor of the Great October Socialist Revolution, May Day, and Victory Day, until the 1989 Moldovan civil unrest during which the military parade of the Kishinev Garrison in honor of the October Revolution was interrupted by demonstrators.

[citation needed] On the morning of 7 November, a group of 100 people took candles and stood in front of Soviet tanks preparing for the parade.

[9] In the run up to the 2020 Moldovan presidential election, an organization affiliated with President Igor Dodon, the Union of Officers of Moldova, occupied the square.

[10] On 15 May 2000, after the Government's initiative to abolish benefits for veterans of the Soviet–Afghan War, sympathizers went to Great National Assembly Square.