Amber is worked into gold and silver jewellery at AmberProfi, whose Kaliningrad-region workshop opened in 2001. Nevsky-T offers handmade silver jewellery designed by Natalia and Tatiana Tarasova, following the family's 1998 founding in Saint Petersburg. Pearls and natural stones shape the handmade range at PoLinia Jewel, which maintains a showroom on Bolshoy Prospekt. That Saint Petersburg business also restores jewellery and runs making workshops for customers interested in trying the craft.
A Chelyabinsk jewellery house that designs and sells its own rings, earrings, and pendants, several set with natural stones. Pieces are offered directly through the workshop's online catalogue rather than through third-party retailers.
Nevsky-T is a St. Petersburg jewelry house founded in 1998 by the Tarasov family, selling handmade silver rings, earrings, and pendants designed by award-winning jewelers Natalia and Tatiana Tarasova. The full product catalog is sold through its own online store, with pieces informed by decades of exhibition and design-competition wins.
Best for Petersburg jewelry house founded in 1998 by the Tarasov family
PoLinia Jewel runs a daily showroom on St. Petersburg's Bolshoy Prospekt alongside a full online store selling handmade earrings, necklaces, and rings in natural stones and pearls. The brand also offers jewelry restoration and hands-on making workshops for customers who want to try the craft themselves.
Best for Handmade earrings, necklaces, and rings in natural stones and pearls
AmberProfi has worked amber into gold and silver jewellery since opening its workshop at the Kaliningrad region's amber market in 2001, alongside amber icons, chess sets, clocks, and decorative panels carved from the fossil resin. The company runs its own stores in Kaliningrad and Moscow and ships its pieces, from cosmetics to statement rings, nationwide.
Best for Amber jewellery in gold and silver settings
This state combine works the world's largest known amber deposit, extracting roughly 500 tons a year from reserves estimated at 56,000 tons and holding around 90 percent of the world's amber supply. Its own Amber Chamber, viewing platform, and gallery-shop sell everything from raw nuggets to gold- and silver-set jewellery from a catalogue of more than a thousand items.
Best for Raw amber and amber jewellery from the source combine
Karelskiye Mastera is a Karelian-birch woodworking studio and shop in Petrozavodsk, hand-crafting chess sets, jewelry boxes, clocks, and icons from the region's prized birch. Pieces are sold both from its Lenin Avenue shop and through its online store, with an on-site workshop for custom orders.
Best for Craft workshop, Woodworking, Karelian Birch Gifts, Chess & Games
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
Yulia Chernousova has run this one-woman amber workshop and gallery in Kaliningrad since 2014, carving solid Baltic amber sourced from the region's own combine into signed, one-off jewellery and art objects. Her pieces have been shown at Russian and international amber exhibitions rather than mass-produced for retail chains.
Best for One-of-a-kind author amber jewellery and art pieces
Torgovy Dom Shungit is a Petrozavodsk retailer specializing in shungite stone products, from pyramids and spheres to jewelry and water-purification sets sourced from Karelia's Zazhoginskoye deposit. Customers order online for pickup at its Pervomaisky Avenue collection point or have items shipped directly.
Best for Specialty retailer, Shungite Stone Products, Jewelry, Cosmetics
YUVVIS is a Volgograd jewellery workshop that has custom-made and repaired gold and silver pieces since 2000, hand-casting rings, chains, and crosses to order from customer photos or original designs. The workshop also buys and sells finished jewellery from its Profsoyuznaya Street location.
Best for Custom gold and silver jewellery from customer designs