The outskirts of Lviv in ancient times consisted of sandy ravines, steep ravines and valleys. The arrangement of the park began in 1879 on the initiative of city councilor Stanislav Nemchynovsky. Stryiskiy Park was designed by the famous master of landscape art Arnold Rering, an engineer of urban plantations, in 1876–1877 on the territory of the former so-called "first" Stryiskiy Cemetery, which was closed in 1823. A total of 40,000 trees were planted: spruce, maple, sycamore, exotic species such as red oak, tulip tree, red beech, ginkgo. In 1887, the Lviv City Council considered the construction of a monument to Jan Kilinski, one of the participants in the uprising led by Tadeusz Kosciuszko. The construction site was a newly created park, which was named Kilinski Park. As early as 1888, work began on the construction of a monument commissioned by the famous Ukrainian sculptor Hryhoriy Kuznevych and Yulian Markovsky. For this purpose the stone block was delivered from Mykolayiv. The monument was unveiled on 18 June 1895, where it still stands. However, the name "Kilinski Park" did not take root, and the name "Stryiskiy Park" proved to be more popular and has stood the test of time.