Аннотация:Along with soils, separate soil properties are now exposed on special maps. In a number of National and regional atlases, such soil properties as acidity, texture, reserves and expenses of carbon, suitability for crops
and non-agricultural land-use alternatives are shown. This trend is explained by both requirements of users and priority of soil properties in taxonomies. In the new version of the Ecological atlas of Russia, there are 10 soil-oriented maps compiled in agreement with the concept of Atlas.