“…The systemic approach for protecting soils against erosion implies the development and implementation of a complete package of erosion control measures, designed on the basis of the actual landscape and including the arrangement of agronomic, forest management and hydraulic engineering measures. In recent years, a number of methodological studies were published [Kashtanov et al, 1997;Morgan, 2005;Glinski et Volnov and Boiko, 2015;Chalov, 2016;Stepanjevic, 2021], outlining the new methodical principles for the research into soil-erosion processes in agricultural landscapes and their environmental consequences, the development of the optimal system of measures for preventing the degradation of the soil cover and the contamination and silting of minor rivers as well as improving the productivity of cultivated lands. The new approach implies, first of all, research into the moisture rotation processes: precipitation, the variation of the land moisture content and water permeability, the overland slope runoff.…”