 Since ancient times the area where city is now located was known as an important junction on the famous Silk Road that connected China with the Middle East and Europe.Aleksey Kuropatkin, the Imperial Russian Army commander of the Turkestan Rifle Brigade, who made an 18-day march in 1880–1881 across of Karakum desert writes in his memoirs "the 5th transition to Kazandjik – .A waterless road.