The purpose of this work was to analyze regulatory legal documents to justify the list of indicators that need to be assessed when monitoring and the degree of soil degradation on reclaimed land. It is noted that the study of the dynamics and identification of the direction of changes in soil fertility indicators is an urgent scientific and practical problem, the solution of which contributes to the development of optimal schemes for the placement of arable land and the development of measures for its restoration. Such observations contribute to the preservation of existing agricultural land and the prevention of the disposal and preservation of reclaimed land in agricultural circulation. As a result of the analysis of regulatory legal acts, the following groups of indicators for monitoring the state of soils were established: physical and chemical, pollution, negative processes, additional for unused land, biological activity, geobotanical state of hayfields and pastures, phytosanitary state, reclamation state.