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The article reveals the results of studies of the humic acids electronic spectra for various types and kinds of peat in the middle-taiga zone of Western Siberia (Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra). It was found that the increase in optical density is observed in samples of humic acids which were extracted from the peat with a high degree of decomposition (40-65 %). At the first approximation the interpretation of received electronic spectra gives reason to range humic acids in the order with increasing proportion of aromatic structures share in macromolecules in the following order: 1) peat humic acids having a degree of expansion from 0 to 35 % with the content of a large number of peat-forming plants, where the extinction coefficients vary from 0.039 to 0.054 or sphagnum peat with the same degree of decomposition with the sphagnum containing 95-100 %, where the extinction coefficients have values between 0.030 and 0.042; 2) humic acids of all types and kinds of peat with a degree up to 35 %, where the extinction coefficients are from 0.042 to 0.068; 3) humic acid of peats of all examined types and species with a degree of decomposition from 40 % to 65 %, where the extinction coefficients vary from 0.059 to 0.087. Although the method of electron spectroscopy is an important tool in the study of humification processes in peat, it has a limited informative value due to unresolved spectra. Thus, peat humic acids with various botanical composition and various degree of decomposition are characterized by similar absorption spectra in the visible area in the form of a monotone increasing of absorption in short wavelength interval and differ from each other only by the absorption intensity. Based on the obtained values of the electronic absorption spectra of the GK and the magnitudes of their degree of benzoindole (α), which are calculated by the results of elemental analysis, the obtained information about the ratio of aromatic and aliphatic fragments in the molecules of humic acids, i.e. the information about the structural organization of the molecule . For the conditions of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra in all samples of peat humic acids did not reveal the dependence of their elemental composition from the types of source of peat, from the peculiarities of their species caused by the location and the specifics of peat formation.