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On the basis of the generalization of literature and our own data characterizing the virgin and ploughed black soil of the Pre-Altay forest-steppe and West Siberian soil provinces, it is concluded that these kinds of black soil comprise the gold fund of the soil of the Novosibirsk Region (NSR): they served and still serve as a reliable basis of the agricultural production in the most highly developed region of West Siberia. However, the black soil of NSR are exposed to increasing erosion destruction. These phenomena, being negative for land tenure, become most strongly pronounced in the regions where the most valuable kinds of black soil - leached and podzolized - are spread. Because of this, soil conservation and natural economic measures are attaining increasingly high importance.