Keywords: drained lowland peaty soils: peaty-gley soils, peat-gley soils, peat shallow soils, medium peat soils, peat soils powerful; drained peat transient soils, drained peat upland soils, well drained alluvial Lovato-peat soils, drained degratory soils, disturbed organic soils, reclaimed disturbed organic soils; agricultural land: arable land, meadow land

// Мелиорация.– 2020. – №2(92) – P 58–69

Provides information about contemporary area state and degratory peat soils in the Byelorussian Polesie. The territory of the Polesie region includes 36 administrative districts of the Republic of Belarus, including the following regions: Brest ‒ 11, Gomel ‒ 21. Minsk ‒ 3 and Mogilev ‒ 1. From the comparison of the original area of drained peat soils with the current area of degrotorfian soils, it follows that as a result of long-term agricultural use and mineralization, 35 % of the area of drained peat soils in Polesie turned into degrotorfian.