Oksana Nikitina

The main objective in assessing the comfort of living population is to determine the components (natural, social and economic) that define quantitative and qualitative indicators. Man is the main criterion for as-sessing the quality of environment and determine positive and negative features of it. But man himself has an impact on environment, forming the "man – environment" relationship. The paper discusses the depend-encies and influence of one of the components of environment in the comfort of living of population, as well as the determination of ecological and geochemical conditions of the study area in terms of their com-fort and compliance vital human needs.