[1] Panfilov Street was formed in the second half of the 19th century as a meridian, crossing the center of Verny from north to south, then it housed: a military cathedral, artillery barracks, settled small officials, merchants, wealthy artisans, officer-Cossack families.

[2] During the years of Soviet power, the street was reconstructed, the central part was built up with new buildings representing examples of architecture of the 1930s and 1950s-1960s.

[3] Since 2014, the foreign organization GEF Sustainable Transport has been persistently proposing to the Almaty city authorities to transform Panfilov Street into a “public space”.

In January 2016, Gehl Architects presented a concept for changing the appearance of the city, proposing a radical reconstruction of the entire central part of the city of Almaty, in particular the streets: Panfilov, Zhibek Zholy, Abylai Khan, Abay, Dostyk and Tole bi (Astana square).

The surface of the rest of the street was covered with concrete and granite tiles; instead of the removed irrigation ditches, blind pipes were installed.

On November 28, 2017, a Vlast.kz journalist went to a solitary protest against the amendments to the law on mass media, went on a hunger strike and demanded a meeting with the Minister of Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

[7] As anticipated by the Soros Foundation's New Civil Initiatives program, the created public space on Panfilov Street is now being used to realize freedom of expression and collectively resolve local problems.