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Possibilities and limitations of the use of humus profiles of soils for the reconstruction of stages and phases of soil formation are considered. It is shown that the humus profile is more reflective in comparison with the soil one. Its structure and properties fix the information about all the stages and phases of soil formation, even those the formation period of which is shorter than the characteristic time of formation of a morphologically expressed index. A range of aspects that require further work on solving the problem of soil formation stages involving humus profiles of soils is discussed.