At the end of the 18th century, the Soldier settlement (Soldatskya sloboda) of Rostov-on-Don began to get massively populated.

In February 1781, the construction of a wooden church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, near the site of the square was started.

In 1887 there was built a bell tower, the upper part of which was dismantled during World War II so it could not be used as a mark for shelling.

On April 14, 2012, on Holy Saturday, for the first time in history of the square a joint charity event of Rostov Cathedral and city dairy company "Polyarniy Medved"[2] — timed to the day of Easter, the company produced the Tsar kulich.

[1] The tradition of making a grand kulich continued in 2014 and 2016, when the 500 kg pudding, baked in Rostov-on-Don, was delivered, respectively, to Sevastopol and Simferopol.