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A film about the Badkhyz State Reserve in Turkmenistan. The film includes shooting of the natural landscape of the reserve and representatives of the animal world living in the reserve. The director of the reserve O. Guliyev, the head of the rangers' service, the senior engineer for nature protection A.Yu. Gerasimov, the head of the scientific laboratory of the reserve A.S. Shapovalov talk about the reserve, talk about the problems of the existence and development of the reserve (synchronously and behind the scenes). The gamekeepers of the Badkhyz reserve are watching the movement of vehicles entering the territory of the reserve, checking the documents of the drivers. The driver opens the door of the UAZ-469 car, hunting rifles are in the car. The carcasses of the killed gazelles are thrown onto a tarpaulin. The skeleton of a kulan and a horn of a killed gazelle lie on the grass. An employee of the district police department interrogates the poacher (synchronously and off-screen). Poachers in a preliminary detention cell. Sunset. The brook murmurs among the stones. Blooming poppies field. Crack in sandy ground. Salty reservoir in the sands. Spider in the web. The bird runs away to the nest, sits on the eggs in the nest. A monitor lizard is crawling. Kulan, fox, herd of gazelles in the steppe. Abandoned weather station. Abandoned agricultural machinery. Collection and drying of pistachio nuts. Flocks of sheep of the Druzhby Narodov state farm on a pasture and a watering hole. The shepherds are driving the flock. A loaded camel and a donkey follow the flock.

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R. Esenov (script)