Editing Ashgabat (section)

====The 1960s master plan====
The Turkmen State Project Institute undertook a feasibility study in the mid-1960s to forecast Ashgabat's development to the year 2000, and on that basis to develop a new master plan. Up until then the city had largely expanded to the east, but now the plan called for development to the south and west. This plan was used for about 20 years, and led to construction of the city's first four-story apartment buildings in the Howdan ({{langx|ru|Гаудан}}) microdistricts, formerly the site of the Ashgabat-South aerodrome, as well as annexation of three [[Kolkhoz|collective farms]] in the near suburbs and their conversion into residential neighborhoods, one of which, Leningrad kolkhoz, to this day is referred to informally by its former name.<ref name=quake /><ref name=osmwiki>{{cite web|url=https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ashgabat#Demolished_neighborhoods|title=Ashgabat|publisher=OpenStreetMap}}</ref> The plan was reworked in 1974, and this resulted in relocation of several industrial plants away from the city center, and thus creation of the industrial zones to the northwest, south, southeast, and northeast.<ref name=encyclopedia />

Between 1961 and 1987 the city architect was Abdulla Ahmedov, who introduced Soviet [[modernism]] to Ashgabat.<ref name=muradov5>{{cite news|url=https://turkmenistan.gov.tm/ru/post/54624/istoriya-ashhabada-epoha-modernizma | title=История Ашхабада: эпоха модернизма | date=24 May 2021 |language=ru |first=Ruslan |last=Muradov |publisher=«Туркменистан: золотой век»}}</ref> Ahmedov's greatest architectural accomplishment during this period is considered the Ashgabat Hotel (today renamed Paytagt Hotel), built between 1964 and 1970, "a harmonious synthesis of architecture and monumental art".<ref name=muradov5 />