The park is the former refuge of the Cossack Lazar Globe, on the outskirts of what was then Polovitsa. He moved here after selling it to Gregory Potemkin his garden on the mountain, which now houses Potemkin Palace and Shevchenko Park.
The city authorities later arranged the city park. Here the water of Ozerka was reduced and water was reduced.
The Soviet power of the Bolsheviks renamed the city park in 1934 to become the "Central Garden of Culture and Recreation of Khotayevich" in honor of Mendel Khotayevich, first secretary of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party (1933-1937), when he began to worship his character in the city. After his arrest and execution in 1937, the park was renamed Valery Chekalov.
On April 27, 2012, at 12:45, at the central entrance of the park, on Dmitry Yavornitsky Street (then Karl Marx Street), the third explosion of a series of terrorist attacks occurred. Three people were injured in the incident, one of whom was taken to hospital.
