Editing Ashgabat (section)

===Industry===
Between 1881 and 1921, little industry existed in Ashgabat. Muradov relates that in 1915 the city featured "68 enterprises, mainly semi-handicrafts, with a total of 200-300 workers".<ref name=muradov3 /> Another source relates that as of 1911 roughly half the workforce of somewhat more than 400 "workers" was employed at the railroad depot, engaged in locomotive and railcar maintenance and repair, with the rest occupied in cotton ginning, cottonseed oil extraction, flour milling, and leather-, brick-, glass-, and iron production.<ref name=encyclopedia /> By 1915 the city boasted as well three printing houses, an electrical power station, three cotton gins, a creamery, a tannery, and 35 brickyards.<ref name=guide />

In 1921 Soviet authorities built a new glass plant plus a wine and spirits factory. In the years following several more factories were added, including the "Red Metalworker" iron-working plant (1925), the silk spinning plant (1928), a cotton spinning plant and textile plant (1929), candy factory (1930), garment factory (1933), shoe factory (1934), and a meat cannery (1938).<ref name=encyclopedia /> As of 1948, Ashgabat boasted "about twenty large factory-plant enterprises, which produce fabrics, glass, footwear, garments, meat products, dredges, agricultural implement parts and much else".<ref name=turkmenistan /><ref name=geotext>{{cite book|url=https://docplayer.biz.tr/181461559-Turkmenistanyn-bilim-ministrligi-tarapyndan-hodurlenildi.html#show_full_text|title=Türkmenistanyň Geografiýasy|language=Turkmen|date=2010|place=Ashgabat|publisher=Bilim Ministrligi|last1=Çaryýew|first1=B.|last2=Ilamanow|first2=Ýa.}}</ref>

Annexation of the former city of [[Büzmeýin, Turkmenistan|Buzmeyin]] ({{langx|tk|Büzmeýin}}), which from 2002 to 2018 was known as Abadan,<ref name="cci.gov.tm"/> brought into Ashgabat's city limits its major industrial suburb. Today's Buzmeyin neighborhood features the Buzmeyin State Electrical Power Plant, and factories for production of reinforced concrete, cement, asbestos roofing, pipes, and concrete blocks, as well as a carpet-weaving factory and soft-drink bottling plant.<ref name=encyclopedia />

Today more than 43 large and 128 medium-sized industrial enterprises along with over 1,700 small industrial facilities are located in Ashgabat and its suburbs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ashgabathotels.ru/ashgabat.htm|title=Ашхабад, Туркменистан|access-date=March 12, 2015|archive-date=June 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170609085945/http://www.ashgabathotels.ru/ashgabat.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> The most important are Ashneftemash, Turkmenkabel, and Turkmenbashy Textile Complex.<ref>{{cite web|first=Федор|last=Забродин|url=http://www.turkmenistan.ru/ru/node/16744|title=Сделано в Туркменистане|publisher=Turkmenistan.ru|access-date=March 12, 2015}}</ref>

====Electrical power generation====
The Abadan State Power Plant (now Büzmeýin State Power Plant), commissioned in 1957, was the first large power plant in Turkmenistan. Two gas turbine plants with a capacity of 123 MW each currently generate electricity in this plant.<ref name=minenergo>{{cite web|url=http://www.minenergo.gov.tm/tm/node/14|title="Türkmenenergo" döwlet elektroenergetika korporasiýasy|date=14 February 2016|language=Turkmen|publisher=Ministry of Energy (Turkmenistan)|access-date=11 April 2021|archive-date=April 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411201132/http://www.minenergo.gov.tm/tm/node/14|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Ashgabat State Power Plant, located in the southern part of city, began operating in 2006. It is equipped with gas turbine generators with a total capacity of 254.2 megawatts.<ref name=minenergo />

Ashgabat also draws power from the Ahal State Power Plant, located outside the city in [[Ahal Province]]. It began operating in 2010 with two gas turbines producing 254.2 MW. Three small gas turbines were added in 2013 and two more gas turbines in 2014, bringing capacity to 648.1 MW.<ref name=minenergo />