The Zhilibera Park was named after a French scientist and educator who lived in Grodno for a long time and founded a Medical Academy here (the first such institution in Belarus), as well as a hospital, an obstetric school and a botanical garden, which in its heyday numbered more than 2,000 plant species from around the world.

The Botanical Garden was founded in 1775. Rare representatives of flora, brought by Gilbert from his native Lyon and accustomed to the Grodno land, also grew here. Three years after its creation, the garden was already considered one of the best in Europe and had 2,000 plant species. However, after J. E. Zhiliber left Grodno, this place was left without proper care and began to decline, although it did not disappear completely. A few years later, what remained of the natural ensemble created by Gilbert was divided into two gardens and a park. The pedestal with the eternal flame appeared after the Second World War over the mass grave in which soldiers who died of wounds in a military field hospital are buried. In the 1920s, under the tutelage of Jan Kokhanovsky, they decided to establish a botanical garden in Grodno again. It was not as diverse in plant species as the Gilbert Garden, but included more than 800 plant species. Over time, a bust of Eloise Ozheshko was installed here.

Here you can also see other sculptures, one of which depicts the founder of the botanical garden — J. E. Gilbert. After attractions, cafes and a summer amphitheater appeared in the park, it acquired a modern look. The Gorodnichanka River, which flows through it, gives additional picturesqueness to the park.

Today's park is significantly different from its predecessor, founded by a famous French scientist, but it also impresses with green alleys, benches located in the shade of tall trees, bridges over the babbling Gorodnichanka river and bronze statues of the hands of Vladimir Pantelev and Alexander Antipin.