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The following problems are discussed: soil and other natural systems;
soil as a subsystem in larger systems; peculiar properties of soil as
a biotic/abiotic system; universal features of soil formation, its sta
ges in a long-term functioning of a soil system; some specific objecti
ves of soil science.