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A monument to the founder of the city and the first Tsaritsyn voivode appeared at the intersection of Port Said Street and Lenin Avenue, in the park near the Maxim Gorky Library on November 4, 2009. Officially, Grigory Zasekin is the founder of Tsaritsyn, Samara, Saratov and the first governor of these fortresses on the Volga. Prince Grigory Osipovich Zasekin is known for taking part in the Russian-Swedish war of 1570-1595, then serving in the fortress city of Korela. He also took part in the Livonian campaign: in the fall of the same year he was even appointed a junior commander in the conquered Trikaten. Then the voivode is sent to the Volga region, where he fully demonstrates his organizational skills by building and equipping three fortresses of Samara (for some time bearing the name Kuibyshev), Perevoloka (future Tsaritsyn, Stalingrad, Volgograd) and Saratov. In the eighteenth century, the fortresses lost their importance and became large industrial and commercial cities, which, however, did not forget their founder, voivode Grigory Osipovich Zasekin. Monuments to Grigory Zasekin have been erected in Volgograd, Samara and Saratov, and in Volgograd, in addition, a street is named in his honor. At the end of December 2008, in the House of Architects, the results of the city competition for the best sculptural composition that would perpetuate the memory of Voivode Zasekin were summed up. Contestants have submitted five applications. Three sculptural compositions were elected by secret ballot - each of them was numbered only, without attribution. As a result, the first two places were awarded to the works of one sculptor - Vladimir Seryakov. The third place went to the project of Sergei Shcherbakov. The sculpture was created for over a year. The winner of the competition, Vladimir Seryakov, said that the bronze Zasekin was cast in Zhukovsky near Moscow. Sergey Shcherbakov, who won the third place, helped to work out the details of the sculpture. As a result, in the Simbirtsev square, near the Gorky library, a figure of the mayor appeared, who sits on a war horse, and his gaze is fixed on the Volga, because of which nomadic enemies may appear. The total height of the sculptural composition together with the pedestal is more than six and a half meters, the weight is more than two and a half tons. The appearance of the monument to Grigory Zasekin on the territory of the central square of Volgograd caused serious objections from the prosecutor’s office and the regional committee for culture. The initiators of the project were blamed for the lack of the necessary approvals in such cases. However, by a court decision, the sculpture was not dismantled and remained in the same place. 2009 年 11 月 4 日，在马克西姆·高尔基图书馆附近的公园里，塞得港街和列宁大道的交汇处，这座城市的创始人和第一个察里津省的纪念碑出现了。官方称，格里高利·扎塞金是察里津、萨马拉、萨拉托夫的创始人，也是伏尔加河上这些堡垒的第一任总督。格里高利·奥西波维奇·扎塞金王子因参加 1570-1595 年的俄瑞战争而闻名，当时他在要塞城市科雷拉服役。他还参加了利沃尼亚战役：同年秋天，他甚至被任命为被征服的 Trikaten 的初级指挥官。然后总督被派往伏尔加河地区，在那里他通过建造和装备萨马拉（一段时间以古比雪夫这个名字命名）、佩雷沃洛卡（未来的察里津、斯大林格勒、伏尔加格勒）和萨拉托夫三个堡垒充分展示了他的组织能力。在十八世纪，堡垒失去了重要性，成为了大型工商业城市，然而，他们并没有忘记他们的创始人，州长格里戈里·奥西波维奇·扎塞金 (Grigory Osipovich Zasekin)。在伏尔加格勒、萨马拉和萨拉托夫竖立了格里高利·扎塞金纪念碑，在伏尔加格勒，还有一条街道以他的名字命名。 2008 年 12 月下旬，在建筑师之家，总结了城市竞赛的最佳雕塑作品的结果，这些作品将使 Voivode Zasekin 的记忆永存。参赛者已提交五份申请。三幅雕塑作品通过无记名投票选出——每幅作品都只有编号，没有署名。因此，前两个名额被授予一位雕塑家 - Vladimir Seryakov 的作品。第三名是谢尔盖·谢尔巴科夫的项目。 这座雕塑创作了一年多。比赛的获胜者弗拉基米尔·谢里亚科夫 (Vladimir Seryakov) 表示，青铜 Zasekin 是在莫斯科附近的茹科夫斯基 (Zhukovsky) 铸造的。获得第三名的谢尔盖·谢尔巴科夫 (Sergey Shcherbakov) 帮助制定了雕塑的细节。于是，在高尔基图书馆附近的辛比尔采夫广场上，出现了一个骑着战马的市长身影，目光定格在伏尔加河上，因此可能会出现游牧的敌人。雕塑作品连同基座的总高度超过六米半，重量
