A large, fluffy Pallas's cat, arching its back, seems ready to meow loudly any moment. Perhaps it's because of the playful family of marmots settled nearby or the golden eagle, poised with its wings spread, ready for flight. All these amazing animals are neither from a zoo nor a forest. These incredibly realistic sculptures are created by a shop teacher, Sergey Bobkov, from the village of Kozhany in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. And the material used is ordinary wood shavings! The Siberian craftsman loves creating new things with his hands, so he has mastered many crafts: wood carving, macrame, basket weaving, and working on a pottery wheel. One day, he turned his attention to wood shavings. The finest, lace-like shavings turned out to be the perfect material for creating sculptures. Before starting his work, Bobkov soaks wooden blocks in water for a couple of days—most often cedar, but sometimes beech or willow—and then begins to shave off the wood. The work is meticulous: Sergey Bobkov studies the anatomical features and behavior of the animal, makes a sketch, and only then creates a three-dimensional figure, which will be "dressed" in a fluffy fur coat or lush feathers. For example, the plumage of a sea eagle took seven thousand pieces of shavings, a sable's fur consists of thirty thousand bristles, and the Pallas's cat was created from more than a million details. Moreover, all elements are attached by hand! Overall, one such sculpture takes the craftsman from several months to several years. Bobkov worked on the Pallas's cat for nearly five years!