An obelisk erected in honor of the 200th anniversary of the Kuban Cossack army in the city of Krasnodar, located at the intersection of Budyonny and red. The total height mounted on pedestal is a stone obelisk is fourteen meters. The monument is crowned double-headed eagle and Golden ball. Surrounds the obelisk ribbon with the inscription "1696-1896 years. Also on the faces of the pedestal you can see memorial plaques, one of which describes the historic event which was dedicated this monument.

The obelisk has an amazing destiny. After the monument appeared in Ekaterinodar in the late NINETEENTH century, he was for two decades together with the triumphal arch and the monument to Catherine II was a peculiar visiting card of the capital of Kuban. The creation of the obelisk was dedicated to the 200 anniversary of the Cossack troops. On this purpose, the City Council allocated a lot of funds. The monument was designed by the famous Kuban architect V. A. Filippov.

The construction of such a scale to Yekaterinodar the obelisk was not easy. It opened a little later than the anniversary in may, 1897, But despite this, the celebration was attended by a huge number of residents of the Kuban, as the monument was a symbol of inviolable ties many generations Kuban, black sea, Zaporozhye, don, line Cossacks. A hard fate befell the obelisk in the post-revolutionary period. In the 20-ies of XX century from the top of the monument is missing a gilded double-headed eagle that was the symbol of Imperial Russia, and in the 30s - had been dismantled.

New laying of the memorial obelisk was held during the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Kuban Cossack army. After two years the monument stood before Kuban in its original form. Such a complex job of recreating the obelisk has performed leading Krasnodar sculptor A. A. Apollonov.