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The paleosols of the kurgan of Early Iron Age (2500 BP, Savtomat culture, Solonchanka-2 kurgan cemetery) were studied. The kurgan was located in the steppe zone of the Transural Plateau, in the Kvarkensky district of the Orenburg region, in the vicinity of the fortified settlement of Alandskoe and Arkaim. The region is well known as ?Country of Cities? due to large amount of archaeological sites of different age. The paleosoil studies of archaeological sites are carried out for many years in the region, as a resul...

The study of the rate of autoregeneration of soil microbial community allows developing the strategy of soil management. The activity of cellulase in soils shows the rate of biological transformation of plant residues and may be used as indicator of autoregeneration of soil microbial community in disturbed soils. The most reliable data on the activity of cellulase in soils can be obtained with the help of the application method, which is based on a reduction in the mass of cellulose fiber that has been incubated i...

In the Russian Federation, in the protection of the natural and archaeological heritage, work on the creation of the Red Book of Soils of Russia and the Red Book of Soils of the Subjects of the Russian Federation have been conducted. To date, the publication of Red Books of Soils has been completed in about 10% of the subjects of the Russian Federation. Groups of Soil Scientists discovered and studied the soils for regional Red Soil books in Volgograd (Kretinin, et al., 2006), Leningrad (Aparin et al., 2007), Belg...