title: TO THE QUESTION OF PERIODIZATION OF SOIL-GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCHES OF SOUTH OF UKRAINE
abstract: Due to the lack of systematic materials that would reflect the development of soil science researches in southern Ukraine, a detailed analysis of the formation of soil science and geographic searches on this territory was conducted. The article summarized the archives and published works concerning this problem. On the basis of the research were singled out six periods. The first features an accumulation of information about soils and their properties that were not systematic. For the second per
journal: Odesa National University Herald Geography and Geology