For fourteen years, this large-scale event has been uniting around itself stone connoisseurs, master stonecutters, as well as enterprises that extract and process stone.

Stone professionals present their achievements during the business program, exchange expertise at round tables, and discover the latest technologies, tools, and equipment. Ekaterinburg was not chosen by accident as the permanent location of the exhibition, since historically and geographically the Urals have served as Russia's foundation for valuable ores and minerals, truly, a unique treasury of gems. In our region, there are rich deposits of emeralds and diamonds, iron, copper, and nickel, decorative and building stones.

Out of the four thousand minerals known to man, a good quarter are found in the Urals. The presence of diverse raw materials has led to the emergence and rapid development of gold panning, stone cutting, and jewelry industries in the Sverdlovsk region. In these industries, of course, the highest art of Ural masters, who could feel the true beauty of stone, was in demand

Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region

Evgeny Vladimirovich Kuyvashev