The park, located on the central street of the city, has become a favorite place for residents to relax during the summer months. But how did the story of this green corner in the city center begin?

On the map of Syzran from 1879, this place is marked as a square. Almost two decades later, on a similar document, it is already named "Kuznetskaya Square." It was located between Kuznetskaya Street (now Kirova) and Bolshaya (Sovetskaya). Here were the city warehouses and trading rows rented by local merchants. Since 1857, the Epiphany Fair was held here annually. However, the July fire of 1906 put an end to this tradition, destroying the wooden stalls.

History preserved the name of a Syzran resident who proposed to create a park or garden in this square. This was Yakov Arkhipovich Zhuravlyov, a member of the city Duma. He not only put forward this idea but also actively promoted it. At a Duma meeting on January 11, 1910, the issue of restoring the trading stalls on Kuznetskaya Square was discussed. Zhuravlyov opposed it, arguing that "the stalls bring only 400 rubles in income per year and spoil the square, which needs to be turned into a garden for rest and protection from city dust."

Zhuravlyov proved to be persuasive, and although with a delay, on December 1, 1911, a resolution of the city Duma was adopted to transfer the square for a garden and develop a plan for its arrangement. For this, funds were allocated from the budget for the installation of an iron fence and planting "fast-growing trees." The fence was necessary, as cattle were often driven through the city, which could damage the young trees. 200 rubles from the city treasury were spent on the metal fence, which was a significant amount.

Initially, it was necessary to drain Kuznetskaya Square and the adjacent streets without hindering the creation of the park. This task was solved by laying concrete pipes to drain water to the Volozhka River.

Revolutionary events reflected on the fate of the "garden on Kuznetskaya Square." The first to be buried here was Vladimir Ivanovich Khlebtevich, who died in the February events in Petrograd. On the night of February 27-28 (according to the old style), the armed uprising succeeded, but fighting was still ongoing on Vasilievsky Island. Khlebtevich, who was on duty at the Tauride Palace, was sent on reconnaissance. Near the Tuchkov Bridge, his car came under fire. Nurse Elena Shupp was wounded, and Khlebtevich, trying to help, was mortally wounded by a machine-gun burst. According to some reports, his funeral gathered a demonstration of twenty thousand people, and a gravestone was erected at his grave.

The park also contains the graves of the victims of the Czechoslovak uprising and the Usinsky uprising. Each of them had their own story, and many of their names are carried by Syzran streets.

On November 6, 1928, in honor of the 11th anniversary of the October Revolution, Kuznetsky City Garden was renamed Lenin Garden. Seven years later, a monument was erected here to the fighters for the cause of the revolution who died in 1918-1919.