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Ceramics of Russia

8 stores · curated ORBIS register

Wheel-thrown and hand-built ceramics are fired and glazed on-site at FABRICA, with cups and decorative plates among its pieces. The studio also offers custom commissions and classes for adults and children, alongside its finished pottery. Porcelain joins other collectibles at Antika Omsk on Gusarova Street, where the Omsk dealer buys and appraises antiques. Pskovskiy Gonchar manufactures heat-resistant red-clay ceramics in Pskov, selling tableware and custom-designed pieces through its own stores and online.

FABRICA

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Prospekt Lenina, Chelyabinsk

A ceramics studio on Lenin Avenue where potters throw on the wheel and hand-build cups, bowls, and decorative plates, then fire and glaze the pieces on site. It runs individual and group classes for adults and children aged five and up alongside custom ceramic commissions.

Best for Wheel-thrown and hand-built ceramics, pottery classes

⚒ Ceramicists & Glassmakers · Chelyabinsk / RussiaORBIS register

Omsk / Russia

This antique shop in Omsk, run by a longtime collector, buys, sells, and trades coins, medals, porcelain, icons, watches, books, and other collectibles. Visit the kiosk on Gusarova Street to browse the stock or have a piece appraised.

Best for Antiques, collectibles, antique-dealer

Pskov / Russia

Pskovskiy Gonchar manufactures heat-resistant red clay ceramics and souvenirs at its factory on Yadrovsky Lane in Pskov, selling tableware collections and custom-designed pieces through its own online store and a network of brand stores. The factory also offers wholesale pricing and factory tours.

Best for Ceramics, Pottery, Souvenirs

Perm / Russia

Russian Folk Crafts Perm is a folk-art and souvenir retailer running three shop counters across Perm shopping centers, selling Gzhel porcelain, birch-bark items, matryoshka dolls, and gemstone jewelry. Customers can browse its VKontakte catalog or visit any of its three city locations directly.

Best for Folk crafts & souvenirs, Gzhel Porcelain, Birch Bark Crafts, Matryoshka Dolls

Brand stores in Rostov-on-Don (e.g. Voroshilovsky pr. 36–38; Budyonnovsky pr. 61); factory in Semikarakorsk, Rostov Oblast

The official maker of Semikarakorsk faience, a recognized Russian folk craft, hand-paints white ceramic tableware and decorative pieces with the region's floral 'Semikarakorsk rose' motif. Its work sells through official brand stores in Rostov-on-Don and online.

Best for Hand-painted Semikarakorsk faience tableware and Don-region souvenirs

⚒ Ceramicists & Glassmakers · Semikarakorsk / Rostov Oblast / RussiaORBIS register

Murmansk / Russia

PREZENT is a Murmansk gift shop and online store built around foods and materials of the Kola North - Teriberka chocolate, ivan-chai, mammoth ivory, reindeer horn and marble-chip carvings - alongside northern-made jewellery, ceramics and tableware, sold from Leningradskaya Street.

Best for Kola North gifts, Teriberka chocolate, ivan-chai and northern craft

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Yaroslavl / Russia

Yaroslavskaya Mayolika is a ceramics workshop and shop in Yaroslavl making painted majolica figures, wall reliefs, Christmas ornaments and hand-cast bells, sold from its Andropova Street storefront and its own online shop. The workshop has produced more than 5,000 pieces since it was founded and currently lists around 300 items in its catalog.

Best for Home & Ceramics

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