Initially, a fruit garden was created on this area by Cossack Lazar Hloba,[4][3] a former army officer from Zaporizhzhia, together with his companions Ignat Kaplun and Nikita Korzh.

[5] Empress Catherine II made the decision to relocate Katerynoslav-Kilchensky to the Dnieper's right bank at the beginning of 1780.

[7] The property was purportedly purchased for 3,000 rubles to create the English park, but it appears that he never got payment.

At least, Lazar Hloba's descendants sued the state for this for ten years, from 1795 to 1805, requesting 3,825 rubles in damages.

[4] The construction of Potemkin's mansion with garden had to be abandoned following his untimely demise, and the park's whole area was given to the treasury.

Potemkin Garden served as the city's hub for social and cultural activities during the close of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.

Many trees felled after the Russian Revolution, and the mansion was moved to the newly established Katerynoslav University in 1918.

A prominent feature of the park was a sizable freshwater aquarium that doubled as a leisure area and a research lab when it first opened on the island in 1984.

[9] Presently, it is acknowledged as a landscape architectural landmark and is a popular spot for strolling and relaxation for residents and visitors.

Accessing the Sicheslav Embankment or walking across the pedestrian bridge to Monastyrsky Island is a straightforward process.