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The first plant in Russia for the production of portland cement was built in 1839 in St. Petersburg, where another, larger plant was constructed in 1856. Other plants were later built in Riga (1865–36), Shchurovo (1870), Kunda (Punane-Kunda, 1870), Podol'sk (1873–74), Novorossiisk (1882), Amvrosievka (1896), and Vol'sk (1897).