The beginning
of the 20th century

In the old Bulgarian Kuiumdjiev family /goldsmiths/, the secret of jewellery making is passed from father to son, along with the surname. At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, Ivan Dobrev Kuiumdjiev, the recognized Master Goldsmith from Gorna Oryhovitsa, dedicated three of his sons - Lazar, Pantaley and Petar to the craft.

• Petar Ivanov Kuiumdjiev

  1925

  In 1925 Petar Ivanov Kuiumdjiev separated from his brothers and founded the company "Alaska" - production and trade of gold and silver jewelry. Apart from traditional Bulgarian jewellery, Petar Kuiumdjiev began to make jewellery of Western European type.

• After his death /1933/ the company was inherited by his son Ivan Petrov Kuiumdjiev, who continued the family tradition.
  
  Between 1945 and 1989, the Alaska company ceased its activities due to the communist government's prohibition of free private initiative. Ivan Petrov Kuiumdjiev worked as a goldsmith in state-owned enterprises and managed to pass down the family tradition to his sons Petar and Stefan, and the grandson Ivan.

  Ivan Petrov Kuiumdjiev

  1933

• Ivan Stefanov Kuiumdjiev

  1997

  Since 1997 the company has been managed by Ivan St. Kuyumdzhiev. Before that the activity of the family company "Alaska" was restored in 1990. A company store was also opened in Veliko Tarnovo.
  
  Preserving the family tradition, he managed to give a new, contemporary and modern look to the jewelry brand "Kuiumdjiev".