Selfrestoration of spoiled lands in mountain mining areas Khentey upland of Central Mongol (Baganur brown coal deposit)

The article is devoted to the study of the process of biological restoration of lands, damaged at open mining of mineral resources in Baganur brown coal deposit (Central Mongolia). The problems of the damaged lands are considered to use them for agriculture and forestry as well as for recreational purposes. It is offered to perform a self-restoration of plants groups on the surface of waste dumps that have not undergone the first stage of reclamation, where their restoration depends on the presence of potentially fertile overburden rocks. The restoration is offered, which promotes a sustainable formation of pioneer vegetation. It is expedient to make forest plantations of trees and shrubs at places of destruction in formed ecosystems and thereby restore plant communities in damaged lands.