Larch woods soils of the forest-steppe and middle-mountain belt in the Kuznetsk Alatau on the example of Shirinsky district in Khakassia

The soils carbonate condition in larch woods of Kuznetsk Alatau east slope is researched in the article. The peculiarities of soil formation in the distinguished biogeocenoses, allowing to define the independent place for such soils in modern classification are revealed.