Taking into account the new educational program in general and inorganic chemistry, a list of control questions, laboratory work, calculation tasks and exercises is offered for each lesson .. The list of main and additional literature is given, the list of electronic training resources, databases, reference and search engines is given . The manual includes the topics of the lecture course and laboratory classes . Printed by the decision of the editorial and publishing board of Dagestan State University . Intended for students of the 1st year of the Faculty of Biology direction 06. 03. 02 Soil science (training profile - Land cadastre and soil certification).