Aim was to study parameters of life quality and it influence on labour potential of workers at industrial enterprises in the Arkhangelsk region. Materials and methods. Study had cross-section type, object was workers from the woodworking, pulp and paper industry and military-industrial complex (n=1466). Complex semistructured questionnaire including questions by selfestimation of health level, life style and general questionnaire of life quality estimation MOS SF-36 was the study instrument. Results. Higher indicators of life quality of workers at the military-industrial complex in comparison with the pulp and paper enterprises are received: physical function, estimation of the general health status, vital activity, integrated components of physical and psychological health, that also is confirmed by the higher selfestimation of health level and social and economic status at the given enterprises. Necessity to use life quality criteria for studying and monitoring of physical and psychological health of working age population was confirmed. Field of application: sociology of medicine, public health and health care, occupational medicine.