[1] On the park's main lane there was a monument honoring the soldiers of the siege that was partly destructed on the order of the city council on 7 June 2024 to comply with derussification laws.

[3] During the Siege of Sevastopol Fromm 1854 to 1855, the whole of what is now Dnipro[nb 1] was the a strategically significant location on the military operations map during the Crimean War.

This was the closest safe area for all the injured, and is significant to remember that Katerynoslav (as the city of Dnipro was called at the time) received the captured French, British, and Turks.

[7][8] In 2008[citation needed] historians from Dnipro (the city was then named Dnipropetrovsk) and the surrounding area claim that over 40,000 Russo-Turkish War soldiers are interred here.

However, Emperor Alexander II visited Ekaterinoslav (Dnipro's name at the time) in October of that same year, and on his own initiative, the chapel was restored and dedicated in honor of the Lazarus of Bethany.

The USSR's anti-religious campaign demolished the church, but some of its ruins survived and provided the foundation for the mound that would eventually be built.

Monuments and memorials were erected on the main lane, and alongside them—on the burials of thousands of city dwellers—were constructed a children's playground, a dance floor, a movie theater, and even a bar.

Diplomats from the Russian Federation Consulate General in Ukraine, a delegation from the city consisting of the Sevastopol veterans, the Dnipropetrovsk diocesan clergy, Cossacks, young sailors from the Dnieper Flotilla, and civilians all attended the event.

[1] There wa a commemorative monument on the location of the mass burial that had a staircase, but this monument's memorial plaque was removed on 7 June 2024 on the orders of the city council of Dnipro to comply with the law "On the Condemnation and Prohibition of Propaganda of Russian Imperial Policy in Ukraine and the Decolonization of Toponymy" (as part of the campaigns to derussificate and decolonization of Ukraine).

One of the park's distinctive features was the arch in front of the entrance, which eventually collapsed because of structural instability brought on by the trams that went through it every day.