The monument to Prince Potemkin-Tavrichesky in Kherson was erected in the square named after him. Field Marshal Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin - statesman, founder and first commander of the Black Sea Navy, creator of the Yekaterinoslav and Black Sea Cossack formations, one of the builders of Kherson. After the death of the prince in 1791, Empress Catherine II issued a decree on the installation of a monument to Potemkin, but the monument was erected only in 1836, on the 45th anniversary of the death of the prince. In 1840, a boulevard called Potemkinsky was planted around the monument.
After the revolution of 1917, the monument to Potemkin was removed from its pedestal and moved to the courtyard of the historical and archaeological (now local history) museum. In early 1944, during the retreat of the Nazi troops, the monument disappeared. A monument to Karl Marx was erected on the pedestal. The monument to Potemkin was restored in 2003 for the 225th anniversary of Kherson.