City Garden in Odessa is located in the heart of the city, on the Deribasovskaya Street. It was founded by the brothers de Ribas in 1803 and completely gratuitously presented to the city. From 2006 to 2007, the City Garden was under restoration. The opening ceremony was held on the Victory Day, May 9. The residents and visitors of Odessa enjoyed fully renovated facades, a new musical fountain and rotunda. Among other innovations there could be mentioned a new substation, equipment for automatic watering and replacement of all communications.

The City Garden is very relaxing and comfortable place. It is where I would meet friends who knew the city better. On the walk to the main entrance off of Deribasovskaya street you pass by monuments to various Odessians which are popular photo opps. Entering the park you are greeted by a fountain and gazbo located in the center of the park. There are multiple path ways with a lot of benches to sit and enjoy the day/night. At each entrance there are outdoor cafes with various types of foods to enjoy, and at night the fountain has colored lights and music to entertain you.

The most complex works to rehabilitate and upgrade the fountain were led by the company “Hydromontazh”. Now there is installed a computerized irrigation system in the City Garden: exactly at 2 am from the land appears water dispensers and they water flowerbeds on a particular scheme for several hours. But the main achievement of "Hydromontazh" is the restoration and reconstruction of the central fountain bowl: now it looks exactly the same as more than 200 years ago, when the garden was presented to the city by de Ribas - original marble of the bowl was managed to preserve and skillfully restored. Also, the external bowl of shell rock was replaced with a new one, reinforced concrete, marble.

The restored fountain now consists of two different fountains: one works daytime, the second - from 21.00 to 23.30. Every minute fountain throws over 2.5 tons of water, and the installed complex filtering system maintains water clarity.

In the dusk the fountain jets are painted in 5 different colors and the music begins to sound; besides the musical arrangement can be changed. Around fountain there gather Odessa residents and guests in the daily opening hours from 21.00 to 23.30.

In addition to the restoration of the fountain in the city park there was also the repair and restoration of the round covered stage, where are held the performances of symphony orchestras. The monument to "Twelfth Chair”, devoted to work by Ilf and Petrov “The Twelve Chairs”, monument to the known athlete and pilot S. Utochkin, monument to L. Utyosov, and monuments to lion statue and lioness with the lion cubs were also restored and ennobled.

The City Garden is one of the oldest parks in Odessa created by Felix de Ribas, brother of the city founder. It is another unique Odessa site with its fountain, the sculptures of the lion and lioness - the symbols of the statehood.

The fact that it was given the name of garden, rather than square or park would seem to suggest that the trees growing today - maples, pines and chestnut trees are later planting and that the original trees bore fruit.

There is one exception though, a massive and very old poplar, a survivor form the original garden. This clearly shows that the garden was not originally designed as traditional orchard. It is likely that the garden was given its name by way of analogy with the Garden of Eden

The bronze sculpture of the Gambs' 12th chair from a well known novel by Illia Ilf and Evgeniy Petrov is standing on one of its alleys. Another bronze monument to the "king of Soviet Jazz", Leonid Utesov, presents a bench on which a smiling and leaning back man sits.