The paper presents the results obtained in the years 2000- 2002 of analysis
of edaphic algal communities and their life forms witch were contained in soil samples collected in the steppe vegetation in the years 1894-1987 and were kept in laboratory able to desiccation. There was a determinate taxonomic structure of comm
unities of algae and the life forms with germination capacity after a desiccation period of 15-18 years.
