Zaki Validi Street, Tukaev Street

Territory of the public garden is adjacent to the Bashkir State Drama Theater. The central alley is actually the beginning of the Lenin street. From Tukaev street it leads to the Republic House and to the bank of the Belaya river.

Fountains work here in the summer.

History

It is a former Ushakov park. It was founded in 1867–1872 and named after of the Governor Sergey Ushakov, who issued the city decree that required organizing city parks for recreation and entertainment of the citizens. On May the 6th, 1903 the governor N.M. Bogdanovich was assassinated by a socialist revolutionist in one of the alleys of the park. After 1917 the park was renamed to Liberty Park, then – to the Central Park of Culture and Recreation, in 1944 – to Aleksander Matrosov Park, at the beginning of 1980s it received its present name.

There is a monument to the Hero of the Soviet Union Aleksander Matrosov in the park. The park also contains the tombs of the national poet of Bashkortostan Mazhit Gafuri (1890–1934), Party and state leader Shagit Hudayberdin (1896–1924), as well as the common grave of Red Army soldiers who died in the Civil War.