Аннотация:The review considers the main directions and achievements of soil physical systems thermodynamics in University school of prof. A.D.Voronin. New instrumental methods of soil physics, empirical and fundamental models of basic thermodynamic characteristics and their use in computer modeling of energy and mass exchange, physically-based methodology for assessing the characteristic states of the soil physical system by water-retention curves are presented. Special attention is paid to the study of factors that control the interfacial interaction of solid,liquid and gas phases in connection with the dynamics of soil physical systems and the problem of soil construction