[1] After the founding of Ashgabat in 1881 street was named in honor of General Mikhail Annenkov, under whose leadership was built Trans-Caspian railway passing through the city.
[2][3] Frequent earthquakes determined the image of the city in the first decades of existence: straight streets, one-story adobe buildings, orchards.
In general, retaining the old plan, the builders have expanded and straightened streets and erected at their home in the South-Stalinist architectural style, which is found in many resort towns of the Soviet Union.
In independent Turkmenistan to demonstrate the onset of the Golden Age, the city began to actively rebuild, including significant changes undergone Turkmenbashi Avenue.
Residential complexes on the avenue, built in the late Soviet period, have undergone external changes, during which stoned facades composite marble tiles and ornate exterior decoration added.