He does not have a botanist, an artist, a geologist or a stone-cutterdiploma; he is a rural tractor operator with a wide knowledge of gas welding.
Viktor Nikolaev is a hunter for ginseng, more precisely - a seeker of a wild root. How to find, do not touch, fix, saving for future seaside generations. For himself, he has his own, vegetable garden. And here is the fact: to grow ginseng, you need to pry the cedar.
And that the cedar does not take offense, and it grows up in the nursery. But his wooden masterpieces man-ginseng cuts from a tree-crust.
However, in the collection of Viktor Nikolaev a few very remarkable works, and in the garden in the village of Lazo - cedar nursery.
He is very proud of his work.