Modern historians are constantly asking themselves why the Kostroma region is the center of Russian jewelers. Indeed, in these lands there are no deposits of precious metals. They were always brought here from other places. Perhaps the low suitability of local lands for agriculture has led to the fact that people here have long been engaged in jewelry.
Kostroma region is the center of the Russian jewelry industry
Currently, the Kostroma region produces more than 30% of all jewelry in the country. In this subject of the Russian Federation, there are almost 700 enterprises that process about 20 tons of gold and 30 tons of silver per year. Almost 7,000 people work in the jewelry industry. More than 80% of their products are exported. Jewelers of Kostroma annually produce items worth about 2 billion rubles.
The Kostroma Jewelery Plant and Topaz enterprises stand out in particular. About these Kostroma jewelryfactories, customer reviews are always amazing.
History of the jewelers of Kostroma
This ancient Russian city has long been famous for its silverware and other decorations. Information about the very first of them dates back to the tenth century. The decorations found by archaeologists date back to this period.
However, historians believe that real jewelers began to work here in the 16th century, it is in the annals of this period that the first Kostroma silversmiths are mentioned. And the first information about jewelry made of precious metal, which was made directly by Kostroma residents, dates back to the 17th century.
History of the Kostroma jewelry factory
Known throughout Russia and far beyond the Kostroma jewelry factory, whose product reviews are only positive, began its history back in 1939. It was at this time that several families, headed by famous local jewelers, formed an artel, which they called "For consumer goods".
This structure started producing brass, silver plated single stone rings. The work place of the artel was a small house in the Tatarskaya Sloboda district of the city of Kostroma. Demand for the craftsmen's products immediately exceeded all expectations, so the artel added cupronickel earrings with one stone to their products.
After some time, taking into account the growth in production, a stone building was purchased, in the premises of which a number of workshops were organized. The assortment has expanded, brooches, buckles, chains, as well asseveral types of earrings.
By order of the country's leadership, by 1940 the enterprise mastered the production of a badge - a red asterisk. In total, more than 1 million of them were produced. The number of employees has increased to 100 people.
With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the artel ceased to create jewelry, switched to the production of barbed wire (wire fences). Many masters went to the front. In the autumn of 1941, the artel was in the lead.
After the war ended, the demand for jewelry began to increase. In this regard, the artel was recreated in January 1946. It became known as the Kostroma Promartel Pobeda. Initially, the main assortment was metal haberdashery. Jewelry gradually began to be added.
In the autumn of 1960, on the basis of promartel, the Kostroma Jewelry Factory was created. From that period until 1967, it mainly processed precious and non-ferrous metals.
In 1967, the range began to expand significantly. The factory began to produce earrings, cufflinks, rings, as well as enameled souvenirs - badges. The assortment began to include products from cupronickel.
Since the beginning of 1973, the factory has been called the Kostroma Jewelry Factory. A year later, she was included in the Yuvelirprom association. Since then, the company has specialized in working with gold 583. The number of employees increased to 730 people. Reviews about the Kostroma jewelry factory at that time testified to a significant increase in its popularity and recognition.
Jewellery manufacturing
In the nineties of the last century, a large-scale modernization of equipment was carried out at the Kostroma Jewelry Plant. The company started production of products with precious stones, including diamonds. Work was also carried out to create exclusive products that immediately became famous and recognizable among specialists. More than once the masters received well-deserved awards and prestigious awards. The plant returned to work with silver.
In 1995, the plant purchased an exclusive set of equipment made in Italy, designed for knitting production. This made it possible to start manufacturing gold and silver chains, as well as to expand the production of products from platinum adorned with diamonds and silver with enamel. The reviews of the new products of the Kostroma Jewelry Factory are also very good.
Around the same period, the company brought its products to the markets of Europe, Canada and America.
At the end of 1995, the plant became an open joint stock company.
In addition to modern technical equipment, the plant also has its own cutting shop, which makes the enterprise unique among other Russian similar plants. It employs highly qualified craftsmen, artists whose creativity is not limited. This allows you to create exclusive and high-quality designer products, as well as fulfill orders of an individual nature.
KOYUZ "Topaz"
Kostroma jewelry factory "Topaz" is an enterprise with25 years of history. During this relatively short period, it has become a very well-known enterprise in Russia and abroad, producing a significant range of jewelry of a very high level.
A Brief History
Topaz started its activity in 1992 as a small jewelry workshop founded by several masters.
After the jewelers, previously working in the state structure "Rembyttechnika", united and registered the enterprise, they purchased about six kilograms of gold with borrowed funds. It was used for the production of jewelry for about six months. Now the Kostroma "Topaz" produces almost 15 kg of this precious metal per month. The company produces almost one hundred thousand jewelry every month. Such productivity allowed him to enter the top three jewelry factories in Russia.
Modern production
The level of technical equipment of Topaz is impressive. The equipment available at the plant allows the company to keep pace with the world's major jewelry centers. Moreover, it makes it possible to implement the entire cycle of jewelry production. The quality of products is carefully monitored by our own modern factory laboratory. Its specialists control all processes and at all stages, from the start of production to the release of the finished piece of jewelry. All this leads to the fact that reviews of the quality of the Kostroma jewelry factory "Topaz" always confirmthe responsibility of the masters and employees of the enterprise.
The range of manufactured products includes tens of thousands of items, including gold jewelry with various inserts (diamonds, precious stones, Swarovski crystals).
The Kostroma jewelry factory "Topaz" is famous for its designers, who during the existence of the enterprise have developed more than 200 jewelry collections, distinguished by exclusivity and sophistication. They are very popular with buyers. Reviews of the products of the Kostroma jewelry factory "Topaz" confirm this.
Design solutions and high quality of Topaz jewelry have been repeatedly noted at domestic and international exhibitions.
Marketers have calculated that every fifteenth Russian woman has in her collection items created at the Kostroma jewelry factory "Topaz". Reviews about them are always favorable. Moreover, authoritative employees of the plant say that in its relatively short history, the company has produced a lot of gold items. If all of them are put together and melted into a wire, then it will circle the Earth more than 400 times at the equator or stretch to the Moon and back 250 times.
The company itself has about 1200 employees. And there are almost 800 people directly at the jewelry factory.
Sales of products
Sale of products of the jewelry factory "Topaz" is carried out through close contact with a strategic partner - the salons "Line of Love". This chain of stores represents more than 120 majoroutlets throughout the Russian Federation and is currently being actively developed.
Topaz products are supplied in large quantities to other jewelry retail chains not only in Russia, but also abroad. Among the countries that cooperate with Topaz are European countries, the USA, Canada, and some Asian countries.
Has "Topaz" and its own online store, which offers everyone a wide range of jewelry. The reviews about the convenience and innovation of this way of selling jewelry by the Kostroma Jewelry Factory are extremely positive.
Customer opinions
Reviews on the products of the Kostroma Jewelery Plant and Topaz are mostly positive. Buyers note a very large range of products, among which you can always find a suitable decoration in an affordable price range. Pleased with the presence of things made for girls (earrings, rings). In the reviews, you can read that the gold from which the products are made is of a really high standard. It does not darken over time, does not fade, does not cause allergic reactions, does not wrinkle or wear off. Many women report wearing rings and earrings made by Kostroma jewelers for over 10 years.
As a drawback, in some reviews it is noted that sometimes the fasteners do not hold stones well (in earrings, rings), as a result of which they are lost or sent to jewelry workshops for repair.
Buyers note that it is possible to profitably purchase the product they like withoutonly in a regular store, but also online. The purchase is always delivered on time, in a beautiful package. The purchased product is fully consistent with what is shown in the photo in the catalog.
Also, customers note that there are often good discounts for a certain group of goods, so high-quality gold and silver jewelry can be bought very profitably. Promotions are held even for products with diamonds.
