Now in the world the problem of the sustainable soil management in agriculture acquired a global character. For Ukraine, this issue is particularly relevant in view of the fact that this state has one of the world’s richest black soils, the so called chernozem, in fact around of 8–9 percent of the global black soil assets is located in Ukraine. According to this indicator (27.8 million ha), Ukraine ranks fourth in the world after Russia (145.4 million hectares), the USA (55.1 million ha) and China (38 million ha). However, due to inefficient management of the soil of Ukraine, they are degrading.This paper examines the sustainable soil management in Ukrainian agriculture, exploring the degree of observance with the principles of this management in agricultural enterprises.We used such methods: abstract-and-logical, monographic, expert assessments, computational and analytical.The Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil Management (VGSSM) were developed by the Global Soil Partnership (GSP) endorsed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Council in December 2016 at its 155th Session, is accepted as a basis for the methodology development of expert evaluation and situational analysis of the degree of observance of these principles in agriculture, which it is assumed to be applied along with others for the substantiation of decision-making and actions.The obtained results demonstrate the present state of observance of the principles of sustainable soil management in agricultural enterprises, the availability of opportunities and reserves to improve the situation of their implementation, due to which this should be carried out