Until the middle of the nineteenth century, the area was occupied by farms and orchards which belonged to the residents of Baku.

The street itself, however, continued to be regarded as a city periphery, home to the urban poor and beggars, well into the end of the nineteenth century.

In the early twentieth century, oil magnate Musa Naghiyev had the city's first multi-family residentials built on this street.

In 1934, two massive identical Stalinist-style buildings were completed at the very beginning of the street, designed by Mikayil Huseynov and Sadikh Dadashov.

In the 1950s, the so-called Soldier Market was removed from the former Yarmarochnaya Square to be replaced by the Samad Vurghun Park, featuring the poet's giant statue at the entrance.