The monument to Catherine II, which has not survived, was installed in Ekaterinoslav, now known as Dnipro.

This monument appeared on Sobornaya Square in 1846, which was called October Square in 1919 and 2015. It was located in front of the gates of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral.

The bronze statue was commissioned by Grigory Potemkin in Berlin from the sculptor Meyer in the 1780s. It was cast in 1782 and finally finished in 1786, as evidenced by the inscription: "Meyer sculpted, Naukish cast, Meltzer finished six years later in 1786." Potemkin died before he could pay for the statue. Later, it was purchased by Nikolai Afanasevich Goncharov, who decided to install it in Polotnyany Zavod in memory of Catherine II's visit in December 1775. This was the family legend of the Goncharovs.

When Alexander Pushkin proposed to Natalia Nikolaevna Goncharova, her grandfather, Afanasy Nikolaevich Goncharov, decided to sell the statue for metal to add money to his granddaughter's dowry. He agreed on a price of 40 thousand rubles. However, despite receiving permission from the emperor to melt down and sell the statue, the deal did not go through.

In 1846, the statue was finally installed, although not in Polotnyany Zavod, but in Ekaterinoslav, which was even more honorable. It was placed in the main city square in front of the Catherine Cathedral, laid by the great empress. The monument became the visual center of Sobornaya Square. In 1941, the statue disappeared, and its fate remains unknown to this day.