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~₽10.4B RUB
REVENUE
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Adamas
RUB 27.5B in bankruptcy claims, three executives prosecuted, 30 rivals destroyed — and the brand sold for RUB 6.5B eight years later.
Moscow 🇷🇺
Jewelry & Watches
Jewelry and watch brands showcasing distinctive design, gemstone expertise, and precision craftsmanship. These luxury creators blend traditional metallurgy and stonework with contemporary aesthetics, creating heirloom-quality pieces that reflect cultural heritage with modern elegance.
14 Brands
Luxury Craftsmanship
High-value items with cultural design elements offer exceptional margins and customer lifetime value. Luxury jewelry markets reward authenticity and craft, creating opportunities in segments where brand heritage and quality command premium pricing.
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Almaz-Holding
A bankrupt factory with six months of unpaid wages during the 1998 crash became the core of Russia's first vertically integrated jewelry empire.
Krasnoye-na-Volge, Kostroma Oblast 🇷🇺
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AVGVST
A former sniper-scope polisher now sets gemstones at AVGVST's Ural factories. When sanctions hit, the brand split in two and grew 40%.
Yekaterinburg 🇷🇺
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CLUEV
Thirteen years in Italy, then he scrapped it all. Six months of failed production later, fifty craftsmen who stunned Valenza.
Moscow 🇷🇺
~$1–5M USD
REVENUE
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Epic Contemporary Art Jewellery
Russia's only carbon-fiber jeweler lost its namesake designer in 2016 — and the rebrand proved more generative than the original.
Moscow 🇷🇺
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EPL Diamond
When Russia's diamond monopoly cut off its rough supply, EPL Diamond survived with a ₽500M state guarantee — then grew to 120+ stores.
Yakutsk, Sakha 🇷🇺
~$13.4M USD
REVENUE
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Fabergé
Lost its own name for $25,000 in 1951. Watched it sell for $1.55B on toilet cleaner. Recovered it for $38M. Still unprofitable.
Saint Petersburg 🇷🇺
~$1–3M USD
REVENUE
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Ilgiz F.
The most advanced enamel jewelry in the world is made by a self-taught Tatar who fires gold at 950°C — fifty degrees from destruction.
Moscow 🇷🇺
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Konstantin Chaykin Manufacture
A failed movement four months before Baselworld. Fourteen employees. The Joker was born from panic — and sold out in weeks.
Moscow 🇷🇺
~₽453M RUB
REVENUE
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Raketa
One of four companies globally making its own hairsprings, backed by a 50-year Soviet alloy stockpile no sanctions can reach.
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SOKOLOV
A village with no gold makes 60% of Russia's jewelry. The company that dominates it started with nine people — and sold for ₽30–65 billion.
Krasnoye-na-Volge, Kostroma Oblast 🇷🇺
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Vostok
$187 in the bank. A court-declared death sentence. A dive watch whose seal tightens the deeper it goes. Russia's last watchmaker never stopped.
Chistopol, Tatarstan 🇷🇺
Defunct
Yashma Zoloto
Russia's largest jewelry chain — 397 stores, ₽45B revenue — collapsed in 18 months under ₽31.7B debt after the 2014 ruble crash.
Moscow 🇷🇺
Profiled Brands
~₽800M RUB (~$8M USD)
REVENUE
Russkie Samotsvety
A ₽742M heritage jeweler in a ₽460B market — surviving Imperial collapse, WWII siege, bankruptcy, and Western sanctions across 113 years on Fabergé Square.
Saint Petersburg 🇷🇺
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