Recognised where design meets performance

The awards shown here come from competition programmes at Blade: Traditions and Modernity and Blade on the Neva. Their juries bring together museum, cultural, forensic, practical and industry expertise.

Blade: Traditions and Modernity is Russia’s principal exhibition devoted entirely to knives—a meeting point for manufacturers, independent makers, designers, collectors, experts and users. Kizlyar Supreme has become an anchor participant and one of the show’s regular focal points: visitors come to our stand expecting new models, special editions and meaningful upgrades.

As one of Russia’s most dynamic knife brands, we are also invited to regional editions because our presence helps attract an audience and introduce the exhibition to new cities and a wider knife community.

The competition is demanding. Handmade knives may be meticulously prepared as individual exhibition pieces. When a series-produced Kizlyar Supreme knife earns recognition in the same environment, it says something important: performance, design and execution are not confined to a one-off showpiece—they are engineered into repeatable production.

Depending on the category, knives are assessed for design, execution, materials and aesthetics, or subjected to practical cutting, control, edge-retention and construction tests.