It starts from the Raimbek Avenue, then crosses the streets of Zhibek Zholy (Gorky), Gogol, Tole Bi, Bogenbai Batyr (Kirov), Kabanbai Batyr (Kalinin), Shevchenko, Kurmangazy and ends in Abay Avenue.

The street is known for its historical and revolutionary events, related to the names of the heroes of October Revolution and Russian Civil War; Dmitry Furmanov, Bagautdin Shegabutdinov, Rudolf Marechek, Tokash Bokin.

During the Soviet Union, the street was reconstructed and landscaped, planted with deciduous trees such as oak, poplar, and elm.

In the 1994, it was renamed in honor of the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakh SSR Dinmukhamed Kunaev[2] Residential and office buildings that were built during the Soviet times; "The Ministry of Social Welfare", "Research Institute of Organic Catalysis and Electrochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR", the Central Committee of the Red Cross, the republican House of health education, the regional teacher's House, a republican House of models, factory hats, the firm "Almagul" by mating and individual tailoring of knitted products, the company "Kazakhstan" on individual sewing and repairing clothes and hotel "Kazpotrebsoyuz".

On Kunaev Street are also located Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences, and a fire station Medeu district.