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The area around Students' Park from the mid-18th century appears as the urban rectangular shape which served as the Turkish cemetery. In 1824, on one part of this already neglected cemetery the "Great Market" was opened, which existed until 1927.
The creation of Students' Park in its present form was done in 1927, after the design of the architect and the town planner Đorđe Kovaljevski. Later on, in 1929, the fence was erected around the park after the project of the architect Мilutin Borisavljević . The fence is conceived representatively with two ceremonial gates and the fence is ornamented with decorative vases. The park and the fence are in the style of Academism, with accentuated central longitudinal passage and roundels. The special value of the park lies in the representative public monuments dedicated to the greatest names of Serbian science and enlightenment, set up within the roundels on the longitudinal central line of the park. The monument to Dositej Obradović, еrected in 1930, was the work of Rudolf Valdec. The monument to Јоsif Pančić, a prominent Serbian scientist, was erected in 1994. The setting up free-standing sculptures within the public place is a characteristic of the academic concept of dealing with park areas.
Dositej Obradović Academism