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The study was performed on example of a eopleistocene pedolithocomplex in the Temizhbeksky outcrop (North-West Ciscaucasia). Pedolithocomplex has a thickness of about 4m and consists of 8 lithological layers and 6 horizons of paleosols. Paleosoil horizons belong to four individual truncated paleosoil profiles. The upper profile is situated in four litho-layers and consists of one horizon which has vertic, stagnic and calcic features. Temporal and spatial relations of these features could be explained by three evolution stage of pedogenesis. The second profile is situated in three litho-layers and formed by two horizons of stagnic luvisol, which also has vertic and calcic features referred to the younger upper paleosoil. The third profile transfixes three litho-layers by cambic and calic horizons with weak vertic and stagnic features. The lower profile is situated in two litho-layers and formed by the single calcic horizon with gleyic and vertic features. Pedogenesis could be explained by complex polygenetic model.