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Data on the fraction structure of phytomass of forest swamps in West Siberia are presented and discussed in association with accumulation of organic carbon. Two mutually replenishing variants of calculating the phytomass and carbon are proposed, based on the materials of the State performed estimation of the forest reserves of administrative territories and of direct stationary experiments in various ecosystems of forest swamps of the southern taiga subzone. For the first time, materials are presented on biological productivity of a large group of swamp birch stands dominating, at the same level as the pine stand formation, in the system of forest swamp complexes of the region. A conclusion is drawn that a differentiated estimation of catching and retention of organic carbon by the phytomass of forest swamps considerably extend the modern ideas of the deposing role of hydromorphous ecosystems of the West Siberian plain and their partici