Information was collected on the multi-apartment housing stock of six mining towns in the Rostov region: Gukovo, Donetsk, Zverevo, Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Novoshakhtinsk and Shakhty. A general analysis of emergency residential buildings was carried out in accordance with the year of construction and the number of buildings commissioned and square meters of living space. In the example of the city of Shakhty, the location of the emergency houses relative to the mining zones at shallow depths, the spread of loess subsidence soils, and possible flooding is discussed in detail. Thanks to the map created with the help of the GIS program SAS.Planet, conclusions are drawn about the location of the emergency structures. It is determined that the largest number of houses that are recognized as unfit for further exploitation are located within the distribution zones of the three negative factors listed above or in the immediate vicinity of them.

Keywords: loess soils, flooding, restructuring of the coal industry, postmining, urban areas, emergency buildings, geoinformation systems

In the article, which is a review, the question about the use of library materials in the design of pile foundation in subsidence soils. Topic is relevant for engineers faced with the design of buildings and structures on the subsiding soils. States the reason for the consideration of the designated theme, coming out of the normative documents, as well as from the practice of static load test of piles. The task is the possibility of using library materials field test piles taking into account features of the static sounding in an environment where it may be difficult, as well as in combination with the results of the full sample or engineering-geological researches, modern methods of calculation (numerical methods, CAD, etc.) and geophysical data.

Keywords: Library materials, static sensing, subsiding, survey