ABSTRACT
Russia, the largest country in the world, encompasses nearly 30% of the world area of permafrost-a¦ected soils, more than 60% of the world area of soils of the Boreal zone, and about 40% of the world area of Chernozems. More than a century since the shaping of modern pedology by V.V. Dokuchaev, Russian soil scientists have gained a vast amount of information about the soils of Russia. Some of the data are integrated in thematic information systems and databases, although a larger portion of it is preserved in paper form and cannot be readily applied in modern information technologies.
