Monument to Maxim Gorky in Rostov-on-Don is on the city's waterfront. On the Waterfront Street March 28, 1938 was a memorial plaque "Here in the Rostov port, the summer of 1891 he worked as a loader great proletarian writer Maxim Gorky (Alexei Peshkov, 1868-1936)", in memory of his first visit to the Don (in 1891), during hiking trip to Russia. Twenty-three he came to Rostov and was hired as a laborer at the port. The second visit took place here the writer in 1928, passing the Caucasus he gave eloquent speech. And the last time, in the late summer of 1929, gave a speech at the meeting, met with the Rostov railroad, locomotive repair factory workers Lenin was on the construction Rostselmasha. In addition to the monument to Gorky in Rostov- on-Don, his name and also named one of the central streets of the city. On it taken a lot of important enterprises and educational institutions. And in 1961, on the promenade was erected a monument to Gorky. On the monument to Gorky in Rostov- on-Don , together with the alias are real initials .