Russian left a successful career for the production of klopovka tincture on Sakhalin left a successful career for the production of tinctures from berries, which grows only on Sakhalin. He decided to return from London back to the island and start living anew, restoring traditions and domestic business. His story became known to the Snob magazine.
According to Salamatov, he was born on Sakhalin and spent his entire childhood there. After that, he left the island when in 2008 it was time to study at the university. Later, the Russian lived in Moscow, London and the United States, but all these years he remembered his small homeland. “The dream of doing something interesting and significant for the native land has always been in the core,” he said.
At a certain moment, Salamatov realized that all the experience accumulated over the years could be directed to the development of the Russian region. He persuaded his wife to move to the island, and then they both decided to stay there and start producing tinctures from bedbugs, or krasniki, a wild sour-tart berry that grows only in the Sakhalin north.
Local residents collect it and then sent to a plant in the city of Kashin, located in the Tver region. According to a special recipe, a local enterprise makes a drink from it, which is then supplied to restaurants in Moscow and the Far East.
Salamatov also gradually began to restore the territory near the old fishing camp on Sakhalin. As a result, thanks to the volunteers of the public nature park “Mys Tikhy”, the site is once again returned to its “noble appearance”. Local residents now have a natural park, the Russian said.
His plans now are to create a new “place of attraction”, rebuild the infrastructure and at the same time maintain a balance with nature and “a person's desire to make his life comfortable.” “I have a dream for my Sakhalin to be preserved. Sakhalin of my childhood, “he concluded.