Monografiya obobshchaet rezul'taty mnogoletnikh issledovaniy, provedennykh v gornoy lesostepi Khangaya (Mongoliya). Pokazano, chto v usloviyakh aridnogo rezkokontinental'nogo klimata na sklonakh gor tenevykh ekspozitsiy v usloviyakh ostrovnogo rasprostraneniya mnogoletney merzloty formiruyutsya kudrovo-listvennichnye brusnichno-zelenomoshnye lesa na merzlotno-taezhnykh pochvakh. Raskryvaetsya ryad diskussionnykh momentov v interpretatsii roli merzloty, kriogennykh protsessov i sezonnykh klimaticheskikh stadiy v razvitii stepnykh i taezhnykh pochv, lesnykh i stepnykh rastitel'nykh soobshchestv. Evolyutsii sovremennykh merzlotno-taezhnykh pochv.