ABSTRACT
Specific features of soil evolution were revealed as a result of the long-term studies of soils developing on the coal mining spoils in Siberia. The evolutionary trends and transformation rates of young soils were shown to be determined by the spoil parent rock material, as well as by the environmental and climatic conditions of the area. Biological reclamation carried out taking into account regional soil evolution features provides the possibility a) to use the parent rock lithogenic resources more efficiently and economically, b) to avoid unfavorable combinations of parent rock properties, climate and biota species, used at the biological stage of recultivation, and c) to increase technogenic landscape diversity due to scientifically based alternation of parent rocks in spoil surface layers.
