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The Sidorovo village, Marevsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Region, hosted the Russian logging championship for the first time.
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The masters of saw and ax competed to outdo each other.
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Participants were to cut down a tree, strip its boughs and chip them into logs for speed.
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Workshops were given by the world logging champions Ilya Schvetsov and Alexander Sokolov from Karelia.
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Ilya Shevtsov is the winner of the wood chopping championship 2004 in Italy.
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A participant of a wood chopping competition.
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A chainsaw and an ax are the main tools of an average wood chopper.
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Sergey Nikolaev became the champion in the individual competition.
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The team competition was won by the Marevsky forestry.
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The interim governor of Nizhny Novgorod Region Sergei Mitin also took part, though the first place was unreachable.
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A woodcutter during a chainsaw assembly competition in the village of Marevo, Novgorod region.
