The so-called Lobnoje Mesto is a round, grandstand-like structure made of white stone in the southeastern part of the square in front of Saint Basil's Cathedral. At the same time, it is one of the oldest buildings on the square that has been documented to this day: it was first mentioned in 1549 when the then 19-year-old tsar Ivan The Terrible gave a speech there. Thus, the Lobnoje Mesto must have been conceived from the beginning as a platform from which, above all, tsar decrees were announced to the people. The name Lobnoje Mesto could literally mean "forehead" or "skull" (and thus a literal translation of Golgotha), however, according to other hypotheses, it has nothing to do with a forehead, but with its location near the praise, as a steep river bank was called in medieval Russia.