A vestige of the Soviet past. It was erected in 1953. The statue of the communist Grigore Kotovski, participant in the Russian Civil War, was erected by a group of sculptors and painters – L. Dubinovschi, K. Kitaika, I. Perșudcev and A. Poseado, after the schematics of the architect F. Naumov. A controversial monument, after many disputes, it remains in its old place, in front of the hotel “Cosmos” on Negruzzi Boulevard.