The Second New Jewish cemetery was opened in Odessa in 1873 to the left of the road to the Bolshoy Fountain - then and nowadays the Lustdorf road. In the territory of the cemetery was built a ritual hall by architect F.A. Troupyanskiy. The cemetery was surrounded by a wall. The front part of the wall with two gates by architect A.B. Minkus was resembling the famous Wall of Wailing in Jerusalem.

"... The old tailor's apprentice showed his boss a hundred-year history of Odessa, resting under the granite slabs. He showed him the monuments and crypts of wheat exporters, ship brokers and merchants who built the Russian Marseille at the site of the village of Hadzhibey. They lay here facing the gates - Ashkenazi, Hessen and Efrussi - the lustrous misers, philosophizing revelers, creators of wealth and Odessa's anecdotes. They lay under the monuments of a labrador and pink marble, fenced off with chains of chestnuts and acacias from the plebs that clung to the walls ... " Isaac Babel "The End of the Almshouse."

Many Jews were buried here during the long years of the existence of this cemetery. Among them are the writers Mendele-Moyher Sforim and Lazar Karmen, the poet S. Frug, the founder of the Odessa emergency medical station Professor Yakov Bardach, the architect A. Minkus, the Odessa businessman E. Babel, the father of the writer Isaak Babel, who was shot during the Great Terror. At the same cemetery were buried about 300 Jews - victims of the 1905 pogrom. Later, a memorial made of granite slabs was erected on their grave.
In the 1950s, the cemetery was officially closed, and further burials on it were prohibited. The cemetery was destroyed by order of the authorities in 1974 and by 1978 it was completely vanished. Monuments and all structures were demolished, burials were not transferred, only a few cases of burial transfer are known. Now the former territory of the cemetery is the Artillery Park.
For decades the Jewish community of Odessa sought from the city authorities for permission to build a memorial on the site of the former territory of the cemetery. In the spring of 2011 such permission was finally received. Simultaneously with the construction of the memorial, the Artillery Park itself is also to be refined.
As of 2017 the former 2nd New Jewish Cemetery renamed into the Artillery Park doesn't have a single bench. It looks rather abandoned and residents of Odessa are trying to avoid even walking through the grounds.