Аннотация:Abstract—The cost of park-recreational, residential, and residential-transport urban landscapes of Moscowhas been estimated taking into account land use and the relationships between ecosystem services and ecologicalfunctions and properties of individual landscape components. On the basis of the methodology previouslyproposed by the authors, a wide range of ecosystem services of urban landscapes, mainly associatedwith soils and their ecological state, has been assessed. The cost of ecosystem services provided by the soil inurban landscapes is 20–30 times higher in comparison with that of green spaces, and some soil services canbe considered invaluable because of the difficulty of renewing this natural resource. The cost of ecosystemservices of undisturbed soils of park and recreational landscapes is 1.5–2 times higher than that of anthropogenicallytransformed soils of residential and residential-transport urban territories. The main contribution tothe overall cost of ecosystem services of soils in urban landscapes is due to the following services: carbonsequestration, preservation of the genetic material of biota, and filtration and accumulation of chemical elementsin the ecosystem. These services can be considered as promising in the monetization of ecosystem servicesin urban landscapes. The decline in the cost of ecosystem services from park and recreational landscapesto residential and residential-transport landscapes is largely determined by the deterioration of the ecologicalstate of soils. The benefits provided by the natural block of landscapes are comparable to or greater than thoseof the cultural (human-created) block. In relation to the all-Russia assessment of ecosystem services, a specificfeature of urban areas is a significant share (on average, 25%) of the cultural block in the total cost ofecosystem services and a decrease in the cost of regulatory services by about 30%. The results of the economicassessment of ecosystem services of urban landscapes indicate an underestimation of the value of naturalcomponents, a significant contribution of soil to the natural block, the need to search for simplified integralindicators of its state, and the presence of cost calculation problems. The methodological approaches andprovisional results of this study can be used in urban planning with the aim to preserve the soil cover of urbanlandscapes and optimize their functioning.Keywords: ecosystem services, functions of urban landscapes, ecological state of soils, Albic Retisols, UrbicTechnosolsDOI: 10.1134/S1064229321120103