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The goal of the present research was to investigate the profiles of airborne cultivated microfungi (with the emphasis on opportunistic species) in outdoor urban environments in mega polis (the city of Moscow). The highest number of microfungi (up to 1500 CFU/ m3) was found in summer in districts recently builtup with rather scarce vegetation. The estimation by the direct account of fungal diaspores has established, that the air dust content of microfungi is considerably higher - up to 400 thousand diasporas/m3. Microfungal assemblages in the snow and ice cover in the urban areas include more opportunistic species than in [soils of] natural forest parks.