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• True chernozem is black in color, but there are various grades, shading off into gray and chestnut-brown soils.
• The zonal soil type is chernozem, and other common types are solod and solonchak.
• Typical soils are chernozem (black soil) and chestnut (brown) soils, although they accumulate less humus than the same type of soils to the north and to the west.
• Composition also includes a high mesophyl umbellate (Peucedanum morisonii) on chernozem soils with microphyllous deciduous woods (Betula pendula, Populus tremula).