diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/BuildPropertiesExt.kt b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/BuildPropertiesExt.kt
index d70244c2395..a37cd38a288 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/BuildPropertiesExt.kt
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/BuildPropertiesExt.kt
@@ -51,3 +51,6 @@ val KotlinBuildProperties.isNativeRuntimeDebugInfoEnabled: Boolean
 
 val KotlinBuildProperties.junit5NumberOfThreadsForParallelExecution: Int?
     get() = (getOrNull("kotlin.test.junit5.maxParallelForks") as? String)?.toInt()
+
+val KotlinBuildProperties.publishGradlePluginsJavadoc: Boolean
+    get() = getBoolean("kotlin.build.gradle.publish.javadocs", false)
diff --git a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/GradleCommon.kt b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/GradleCommon.kt
index 155cc7802e0..5a4699f6c7d 100644
--- a/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/GradleCommon.kt
+++ b/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/GradleCommon.kt
@@ -100,7 +100,13 @@ fun Project.configureGradlePluginCommonSettings() {
                 .extensions
                 .configure<JavaPluginExtension> {
                     withSourcesJar()
-                    withJavadocJar()
+                    // Enabling publishing docs jars only on CI build
+                    // Currently dokka task runs non-incrementally and takes big amount of time
+                    if (kotlinBuildProperties.publishGradlePluginsJavadoc ||
+                        kotlinBuildProperties.isTeamcityBuild
+                    ) {
+                        withJavadocJar()
+                    }
                 }
         }
 
@@ -163,4 +169,4 @@ fun Project.publishShadowedJar(
             add(sourceSet.apiElementsConfigurationName, shadowJarTask)
         }
     }
-}
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+}