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Podolsk
City centre of Podolsk, Russia.
Podolsk
Russia
Podolsk, city, Moscow oblast (region), western Russia. It lies south of Moscow on the Pakhra River, a tributary of the Moskva. The village of Podol, created a town in 1781, owed its development to its position on a main highway and, after the 1860s, on a railway running south from Moscow. The city now has engineering, nonferrous-metallurgical, cement, and food-processing industries. Pop. (2006 est.) 179,525.
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