The park was founded on January 1, 1920, during the first All-Union Communist Saturday. The park project was developed by the famous gardener R. F. Katzer.

The park was initially named "Garden in Memory of the Victims of the Execution of January 9, 1905." It was laid out on the very spot from which the workers of the Narvskaya Zastava marched with a petition to the Winter Palace on the memorable Bloody Sunday. At the Narvskaya Zastava (now Stachek Square) they were met and shot by troops.

Currently, the park named after January 9 is a popular recreation area among residents of the Kirovsky District: mothers with strollers, elderly people walk here, children frolic.