There is one page in the history of Kishinev, of particular importance for every dweller of Kishinev. It is connected with the monument to A.S. Pushkin. The idea of construction of the monument to the great poet occurred even in the 60s of the XIX century, but it had not come true, although the donations were collected. In 1880 the Kishinev dwellers returned to their charished dream and addressed to the outstanding Russian sculptor - Academician A. M. Opekushin with the request to sculpture the monument to A.S. Pushkin for Kishinev. At that time, the sculptor was just working at the monument, immortalizing the memory about the poet. Here are the lines of the sculptor's reply: "Let me offer you the colossal bust, i.e. the head of the same size and model, like that of Pushkin's statue in Moscow".

In 1881 the poet's bust made by A.M. Opekushin was delivered to Kishinev by railway. Later, under the sculptor's supervision, the granite column with the pedestal was hewed out. The special commission was occupied with the monument erection since 1881 till 1885. On 26 May 1885, in the poet's birthday, in the presence of the vast confluence of people and the city visitors, the monument was opened in one of the side alleys of the park. Initially, it was surrounded by chains as is seen on the photographs and engravings of that time.

In the middle 50s the monument was transported to the centre of the park and put on the axis of the Alley of Classics symbolizing the internationalism of poetry as the spiritual value of mankind of all the times and peoples. Pushkin was the idol of Moldovan poets and writers as well as his contemporaries, with whom he very much liked to stroll through this park.

This was one of the first monuments to the great Russian poet; this monument is an exact copy of the upper part of the statue, put in the centre of Moscow.