Аннотация:Express conductometric assessment of salinity using the electrical conductivity of the liquid phase of the soil is widely used all over the world. In this regard, the purpose of our study was to compare the GOST methodology in the Russian Federation with a soil-water ratio of 1:1 and the classical Richards methodology with an assessment of the electrical conductivity of a soil solution in the state of water saturated.The novelty of the study in comparison with (Sonmez et al. 2008) consisted in using not only an empirical, but also a physically-based approach to compare these two methods based on the theory of dilution of soil solutions.