Two cultivars of purple carrot 'Pupur' and 'Mayami shokoladnaya" were investigated. Anthocyanins of both cultivars was qualitatively the samemain compound was cyanidin-3-feruloylhexosyl-pentosyl-hexodide, mole fraction of the anthocyanin was approximately 72 % of the overall anthocyanin content of carrot roots of cv. "Purpur" (I) and only 49 % in in carrot roots of cv. "Mayami shokoladnaya" (II). Cyanidin-3-pentosyl-hexoside (33.8 %) was found in carrot roots of (II) and only 4-18 % in carrot roots of (I). The overall accumulation of anthocyanins was fond in roots of carrots was 0.111 and 0.232 g per 100 g FW for cultivars I and II, respectively.