The road was formed at the end of the 19th century from the Bolshoy Alma-Ata stanitsa to the Kargalinsky highway, later along the Small Almaty gorge in connection with its economic development. On the avenue, lined with pyramidal poplars and partially landscaped sidewalks, the main buildings and structures of Verny were: Gostiny Dvor, public meeting, post office and a telegraph; in the mountains there were mills, kruporushki, a brewery and a candle factory, a hospital, summer cottages. The street was named Kolpakovsky () which was in honor of the Russian general, one of the main figures in the conquest of Central Asia.