The figure G . R . Derzhavin stands alone in the history of the city - for Tambov it is not only a prominent cultural figure of his time, a poet and a grandee, but also the governor of the city in 1786 -1788 yy ., whose forces here began many favorable transformations . The city's development plan was approved, the first newspaper was founded, the theater, the reading room, a number of educational institutions, and t . . were opened. In the city there is a street bearing the name Derzhavin, there are the regional museum of local lore and a concert hall, and at the very beginning, in the same garden, in 1994 . a monument was erected . . @ @ Derzhavin . The author of the monument - sculptor K . I . Malofeev .

Address: Tambov, Derzhavinskaya ul., 3.