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A method was proposed for the separate gas-chromatographic determination of β -chlorovinylarsonous dichloroanhydride (lewisite) and anhydride (lewisite oxide) in samples of soil and construction materials. Because of the absence of regulations for the maximum permissible concentration (MPC) of lewisite and lewisite oxide in construction materials (concrete, bricks, facing tile, etc.), the MPC level of lewisite in soil (0.1 mg/kg) was taken as the maximum permissible concentration in the development of the method for their determination in the above samples. The method is based on the solid-liquid extraction converting lewisite and lewisite oxide into components that can be separated at the stage of blowing-out the extractant in an inert gas flow and their subsequent conversion into acetylene with a 30% aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide and the chromatography of the vapor phase with flame-ionization detection. The error in the determination is no larger than ± 20 rel %. The time of analysis is within 1.5 h.