The Kalinkinsky brewery of St Petersburg, founded near the Staro-Kalinkin bridge over the Fontanka by the Englishman Noah Cazalet in the 1790s (1795 in the Encyclopedia of Saint Petersburg); the Kalinkinsky Brewing and Mead Partnership from 1862, and by 1914 the largest brewery of the Russian Empire, with up to 5.5 million vedro a year. Named after Stepan Razin in 1922 and leased to the Petrograd consumer society PEPO; from 1971 to 1986 the head plant of the Leningrad brewing association that also held Krasnaya Bavaria and Vena, then the Leningrad brewing and soft-drinks combine, a joint-stock company in 1993. Part of Heineken in Russia from 2005; it stopped brewing in September 2009 and the site was sold in April 2013. unverified info