Editing Ashgabat (section)

====1930 to 1948====
In 1930, asphalt was used for the first time to pave Ashgabat's streets.<ref name=muradov4>{{cite news|url=https://turkmenistan.gov.tm/ru/post/54304/istoriya-ashhabada-vremya-bolshih-peremen |title =История Ашхабада: время больших перемен  |date=13 May 2021|first=Ruslan|last=Muradov |language=ru |publisher=«Туркменистан: золотой век»}}</ref> The water supply was increased by piping water from springs in neighboring Gämi and Bagyr.<ref name=muradov4 />

The first master plan for Ashgabat, developed between 1935 and 1937 at the Moscow Institute of Geodesy, Aerial Imagery, and Cartography, envisioned expansion to the west, including irrigation and greening of the Bikrova canyon (today Bekrewe).<ref name=encyclopedia>{{cite book|title=Туркменская Советская Социалистическая Республика: Энциклопедический справочник|date=1984|publisher=Издательство Чувашского обкома КПСС|place=Ashkhabad|language = ru}}</ref> The city architect's office was created in 1936 but was unable to implement the new master plan "as it implied significant demolition of the existing buildings".<ref name=quake>{{cite web|url=http://turkmenistan.gov.tm/?id=17263|title=Ашхабадская трагедия: 70 лет спустя|last=Komarov|first=Vladimir|date=October 6, 2018|work=Туркменистан: золотой век|language=ru}}</ref> A description of Ashgabat published in 1948 just before the earthquake noted, "In Ashgabat there are nearly no tall buildings, thus every two-story building is visible from above...", i.e., from the foothills. The tallest structures were the clock tower of the textile mill, the "round smokestack of the glass factory", two "exceptionally thin minarets" of the "former mosque", and "two splendid towers over the long building of the main city hotel".<ref name=turkmenistan />