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Based on generalization of the available results of the investigation into the traits and properties of chernozem in the Kuznetsk depression (Kuznetsk chernozem), we concluded that these soils are the “gold fund” of croplands of the Kuznetsk Basin. These soils have served as an irreplaceable basis for grain crop production in this most highly developed industrial region of West Siberia. However, in spite of the high anthropospheric significance, they are subject to increasing erosion-deflationary destruction, since even the simplest soil-protecting measures are not implemented when using these soils as croplands. In addition, they are uncontrollably assigned for open (quarrying) coal production, whose major coal resources are localized within the Kuznetsk depression, where chernozem, arable soil of the best quality, is the soil prevailing in soil cover. Compulsory tight control over the reasonability of its assignment for the coal-producing industry is needed to conserve Kuznetsk chernozem.
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Original Russian Text © V.A. Khmelev, A.A. Tanasienko, 2012, published in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2012, No. 5, pp. 729–742.
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Khmelev, V.A., Tanasienko, A.A. Kuznetsk chernozem: Anthropospheric importance and threat of elimination. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 5, 529–539 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425512050034
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