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Economy of Pushkin


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As of 1 January 2010 there were 741 companies in Pushkin, including 165 in food service, 358 in trade and 53 in small retail sales, 162 in household services, as well as 8 supermarkets and one market. Large retail chains of the town include such as "Pyatyorochka", "Magnit" and "RiOMAG".

Mechanical engineering is the core industry of Pushkin. It is represented by such enterprises as plant "Sophia" (railway equipment), Pushkin's Engineering Works (road construction equipment), NGOs STIGMASH (boiler equipment), plant "Astra" and "DVT" (woodworking machinery). Several companies produce medical equipment. The town has an asphalt plant, a stone processing plant Medved' ("Bear"),and several woodworking and furniture production factories. The town has well-developed food industry which produced pre fabricated frozen meat ("Daria"), beer (Tinkoff brewery is part of Anheuser-Busch InBev � the biggest beer producer in Russia), bread ("Tsarskoselsky bread"), among other products. The factory "??????????" is one of the largest Russian producers of frame-panel houses.

The Sofia are of Pushkin hosts a military garrison with several aircraft and artillery units and a military cooks school No. 228. Outside the town there is military airfield and an aircraft repair plant, which is part of Forces of central subordination of the Russian Air Force
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