B. P. Akhtyrtsev and A. B. Akhtyrtsev
Voronezh State University, Universitetskaya pl. 1, Voronezh, 394893 Russia
Received March 11, 1996
Abstract—Chernozemic-meadow carbonate solonchakous paleosolonetzes were discovered in the forest-
steppe zone of the Russian plain and their properties were described for the first time. It is established that the
genetic profile of these soils had been completely formed by the early second millennium BC. They were
formed by the superposition of solonetzic pedogenesis on the profiles of chernozemic-meadow soils of the
Holocene optimum. In the Bronze and Subatlantic periods, the processes of leaching, desolonetzization, and
solodization gradually transformed the paleosolonetzes into modern zonal soils with differing extents of elu
vial-illuvial profile differentiation.
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