The ruins of the fortress of Tiraspol - is one of the main historical attractions. The fortress on the left bank of the Dniester River was built in 1792-1793 as the city fortification. He supervised the construction of general AV Suvorov. The author of this work was the architect FP de Volan.

After the Russian-Turkish war, according to the Treaty of Jassy, ​​signed in December 1791, the boundary separating the Turkish and Russian ownership was determined Dniester River. The issue of the construction of a powerful defensive structure, able to withstand the janissaries, arose after joining left bank of the Dniester River in Russia, when the active development of new territories. Left Bank is populated fleeing from the Turkish yoke the inhabitants of the Moldavian principality, and come from different regions of Ukraine and Russia.

The fortress was founded in June 1793 Initially it was supposed to be rectangular. The final result of defensive structures was placed on an octagonal bastion of the right shape. By the end of 1795 the construction of the fortress ended. On the territory of the defensive constructions were: commandant's house, the church of St. Andrew, three artillery park, a few barracks, powder magazines, stables, a military hospital and a warehouse of supplies. The earthen ramparts placed loopholes. Inside the fortress could get through the gate: Kherson, Bratslav and Western.

By 1795, in the vicinity of the citadel has about 3 thousand. People. At the beginning of 1795 serf settlement gained the status of the city and the modern name of Tiraspol. Gradually they began to grow around the fortress houses, the first of the street. By the end of the XVIII century. the town was transformed into an important administrative and trade and handicraft center in the south-west of the country. In 1812, according to the Bucharest peace treaty the Russian border was moved to the river Prut, resulting in Tiraspol lost his borderline significance, and the fortress - military importance, becoming a gloomy dungeon.

Tiraspol fortress ruins are located in the southwest of the city between the district and the street Zakrepostnaya Slobidka Fedko. He survived only tinderbox bastion called "Saint Vladimir". Defensive structures enclosed by a five-meter earthen rampart.