[1] In 1854, by a group of Major Peremyshelsky, left bank of the Small Almaty was selected as the most suitable place for the construction of Zailiyskiy fortification.

The riverbed was reinforced and concreted, along the whole channel at a certain distance special walls-weirs were installed, which are important dampers of the velocity of water flow, protecting the city from flooding and floodwaters.

[5] In 2012, a major reconstruction of the channel and embankment of the Malaya Almatinka River from the Palace of the Republic to Makataeva Street was completed by order of the Akimat of Alma-Ata city.

[6] In 2017, the "Department of Urbanism" of the Akimat of Almaty proposed a radical transformation of the embankment of the Malaya Almatinka River and its riverbed into a public space, and ordered the development of the project.

In 2020, the Department of Comfortable Environment received a finished project and called a tender for the transformation of the embankment and the Malaya Almatinka Riverbed.

After that, on behalf of the head of state, the "Department of Urbanism" made a statement that the water cascades will be preserved, and the trees of the green zone will not be cut down.

[7] In the "Mayak" neighborhood, on the lower outskirts of the city, polluted water is illegally discharged into the Malaya Almatinka River from a cattle ranch.