Аннотация:Freezing of rocks and formation of permafrost aff ect soils and produce specifi c signatures in their solidmatrix. The macro- and micromorphological signatures of frost eff ects remain preserved in buried soils and canserve as explicit or implicit traces of past cryogenic environments. They are, respectively, cryoturbation, aggregationand size sorting of soil particles, gleying and peat formation in well drained soils upon impermeablepermafrost. Such signatures are used, in terms of the cryotraceological approach, to reconstruct glacial environmentsduring MIS-3 and MIS-2 events of the marine oxygen isotope stratigraphy in diff erent regions.