Petrovskiy Skver, Voronezh

Petrovsky Square is a public garden in the center of Voronezh in front of the Southeastern Railway Administration. Bounded by Stepana Razina Street, Revolution Avenue, and 20 years of Komsomol Street, area 0.5 ha.

The square got its name in honor of Russian Emperor Peter I - the founder of the regular Russian military fleet in the Voronezh region.

In 1860 on the territory of the square was established Monument to Peter I. During the Great Patriotic War the monument in bronze was taken by German occupants from the city, and in 1956 the monument was renewed by sculptors N.P.Gavrilov and G.A.Shults which had survived from the photos. The pedestal on which the sculpture of Peter I, preserved since 1860, is made of pink granite Pavlovsk. Near the monument there are 5 ship's guns. In 1901 in the park was created fountain and installed 40 benches.

In 2007, in connection with the construction of the shopping and entertainment complex was reconstructed square.

At the moment, the square is one of the main meeting places for lovers and young people.

House No. 21 on Prospekt Revolutsii is situated near Petrovsky Prospect, which was built for the Treasury Chamber in 1786-1787 on the project of Giacomo Quarenghi as a part of the unrealized complex of public buildings. In 1784 Vasily Alekseevich Chertkov, governor-general of Voronezh, ordered the architect Quarenghi to design the provincial administration and provincial offices. It was to consist of three buildings connected by semicircular galleries: a one-storey mansion of the Governor's Administration in the center, and two-storey buildings of the Treasury Chamber on the right and the Civil and Criminal Chambers on the left. The complex was supposed to be placed in the territory of the present-day Petrovsky garden. The construction work was supervised by the provincial architect I. Volkov. Only the building of the State Chamber was erected since the beginning of the Russian-Turkish War resulted in a temporary ban on the construction of stone buildings all over the country.

In 2011, for the 425th anniversary of Voronezh, Russian Post issued an envelope with the image of the monument to Peter I in Petrovsky Park.