Modern ecological state of southern slope soils of the Great Caucasus, problems and ways of their solutions

The presented article describes in detail the natural conditions, geological structure, climatic conditions of the soil and vegetation cover of Sheki-Zagatala cadastral region of Azerbaijan. The diagnostic indicators of soils and the degree of erosion in the vertical zonality from the foot to the sub-nival zone of the Greater Caucasus are analyzed, and questions of prevention of soil degradation are.