One of the main features of the city of Astrakhan is a huge number of fountains that amaze with their variety of shapes and sizes. At the city's waterfront is a few fountains, and all of them have an original. The most prominent among them the beautiful light and music fountain "Peter". Its creation was part of a project for the reconstruction of the city of Astrakhan, held in 2009. During the reconstruction on the waterfront has been done a lot of repairs, and the appearance of light and music fountain became their main result.

The fountain was named after the Emperor Peter I. First held a special competition in which everyone could participate. It received 250 proposals fountain name, but in the end the jury decided on "Petrovsky".

Surrounded by a balustrade of small fountains, light and music fountain is quite impressive size. Its diameter is 8 m, height - 3, 5 m, and the total area of ​​the bowl - 875 square meters. m. The fountain is divided into several levels, each of which at the time of submission to the beat of the melody alternately surging up colored foaming jet of water. Such "dancing" can be seen on the city's waterfront, almost every hour. Musical accompaniment singing fountain is not limited to the execution of the works of the legendary pop and rock bands in his arsenal there are classical music. On May 9 Astrakhan light and music fountain "played" since the melody of war, namely the "Blue Scarf", "Katyusha" and more.

In the evening, the fountain water views "Peter" looks most impressive.