This study is devoted to the peculiarities of online education, namely, the use of virtual laboratories. The emphasis is being placed on the development of a laboratory model that can take advantage of the available online courses and adapt them for students with special educational needs. The research describes the learning process in a virtual laboratory, options for integrating online courses, and the ways of presenting them to students with certain educational needs. As a result, a virtual laboratory model was developed; it has been primarily designed for people with hearing and vision impairment, and musculoskeletal disorders. Thus, each user category was submitted several options for the educational process implementation within the virtual laboratory. The theoretical model allows creating a virtual laboratory to teach students with special educational needs. Based on the student experience of using the laboratory, research aimed at searching for new ways of presenting information and improving existing ones could be conducted.

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This work is dedicated to examining the soil and forest vegetation characteristics in the landfills of quarries of various ages and climatic conditions (Kuzbass, Mosbass, and Sokolovsky quarry). The work was based on the analysis of the statements for 2001–2021. In the Kuzbass region, pH values were found to have fallen to 5.0. A similar trend was seen in the area of the younger Mosbass and Sokolovsky quarries. The basal soil respiration rate career was extremely low (about 0.3 mg CO2/g of soil/h). The CO2 content in the carbonate ranges from 0.07 to 0.7%, with the higher figures observed in older Kuzbass rather than Mosbass and Sokolovsky quarry. Analysis of soil samples from three quarries revealed four species groups at sites associated with the prevalence of specific fractions, such as gravel, sand, silt, and stony soil. The dominant species present on the gravel substrate were Downy Birch, Common Hornbeam, European Oak, Siberian Spruce, Common Juniper, Siberian Larch, Common Pine, and Siberian Fir. Given that Kuzbass is the oldest open-pit mine, forest vegetation species dominate here in the surveyed areas, which is typical of gravel soils. Mosbass is also characterized by a diversity of similar species, though work on mineral mining there ended in 2009. Stony and sandy soil fractions predominated in the Sokolovsky quarry, although other studied substrates were also encountered.

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The purpose of the research is to describe plant community formation on the quarry surfaces to determine a path for optimal revegetation. To achieve the goal, the studies determined soil pH, the content of skeletal fraction, basal respiration, and performed the acidimetric assessment of CO 2 . The research program aimed to investigate the peculiarities of plant communities' formation in areas with different degrees of revitalization and investigate the influence of soil cover on plant associations. Results