This book was written by the oldest nature researcher in Kazakhstan, Doctor of Biological Sciences, professor of zoology and feature writer, who has published more than seventy popular science and non-fiction books of documentary prose. It is dedicated to the interesting and previously unknown findings of the author in the once prosperous and now deserted part of the Sary-Arka semi-desert and is intended for a wide range of readers, nature and travel lovers, as well as specialist scientists.