The seeds of underutilized species and wild relatives of wheat and wheat amphidiploids when stored in conditions not controlled by the level of humidity and temperature, lose viability after 6 years of storage. Taking into account the peculiarities of growing accessions of these species - high costs of manual labor and dependence on climatic conditions, the worker and active seed collections of them should be stored in airtight containers with the previous drying to 7-8%.