
Starting rapid development of stone processing in Russia, a country of wooden architecture, was inextricably linked with the growing needs in the new building materials in the design of the mass construction of St. Petersburg on the model of European capitals . The development of stone working in St. Petersburg due to the proximity to the historically rich prirodokamennym resources located now in the Leningrad Region, the Republic of Karelia and Finland, with a predominance of deposits granites, diorites and granosyenites gray and gray-pink color.
Stone mining and processing industries of the Russian Empire reached the highest stage of development in the late XIX - early XX century. The degree of development of the industry clearly indicate Classified information and advertising, taken from the catalog of architectural projects Release 1904.