Kombinat is a southwestern suburb of
Tirana
Tirana ( , ; aln, Tirona) is the capital and largest city of Albania. It is located in the centre of the country, enclosed by mountains and hills with Dajti rising to the east and a slight valley to the northwest overlooking the Adriatic Sea ...
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Albania
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, located about 6 kilometres from the main centre. It contains a number of landmarks related to
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretar ...
including an old statue (located on Garibaldi Square) and an old textiles factory. Kombinat Stalin Textiles Factory once employed up to 2000 workers and was capable of an ultimate annual capacity of 2,0000,000 square meters of cotton cloth.
[Wolff, Robert Lee, ''The Balkans in our time'' (1974), American Foreign Policy Library, Volume 23 of Russian Research Center studies, Harvard English Studies , ]Harvard University Press
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It also contains an old coal factory and a bus station near the statue and square. The football club
FK Kombinati is based in Kombinat as the headquarters of
Coca-Cola
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Albania.
References
Neighbourhoods of Tirana
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