Kombinat is a southwestern suburb of

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, located about 6 kilometres from the main centre. It contains a number of landmarks related to

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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 ,

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It also contains an old coal factory and a bus station near the statue and square. The football club

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is based in Kombinat as the headquarters of

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Albania.

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Neighbourhoods of Tirana {{Tirana-geo-stub