The article highlights the features of the analysis of reclaimed and disturbed lands in the development of quarries in the Moscow and Kaliningrad regions. As a result of the analysis, territories with a modified landscape were studied in two regions of Russia – the Moscow region and the Kaliningrad region. The study revealed that open-pit mining leads to a significant transformation of soils, changing their chemical composition and physical characteristics. Construction on such sites becomes extremely difficult due to the formation of man-made deposits and dumps. Satellite images clearly demonstrate the scale of the problem of land degradation as a result of quarrying. The analysis of scientific and practical provisions is made, the author’s conclusions are given
Volkov et al. (Tue,) studied this question.