[Peculiarities of the psychological status of first-year students in terms of university education].

Peculiarities There was performed the study of the mental status of first-year students enrolled in the Tuvan state University. There were detected levels of reactive and personal anxiety, adaptive capacity, the level of social and psychological adaptation and aggression. Adaptation potential in students is within limits of the satisfactory one, there was no detected person with poor adaptive capacity and failure of adaptation, that indicates to the genetically fixed ability of the students’ body to adapt to living conditions.

[SOCIOHYGIENIC FACTORS FOR THE LIFESTYLE IN STUDENTS].

In the paper there are presented the studies of the social status and lifestyle in students of Tuvan and Russian nationality according to self-assessment by students of the material and domestic living conditions, health status, physical development, nutrition, socio-demographic characteristics. Students of the Tuvan University were shown to differ according to a low level of material provision, predominance ofrural students over urban ones, low educational qualifications of parents of students, due to the general socio-economic characteristics of the republic with a low level of urbanization, economic development, features of indigenous way of life. 43.

[The cardiovascular system during adaptation of students residing in a South-Siberian region].

The trend in adaptation processes was studied by the parameters of the cardiovascular system in Tuvian and Russian students during their study at a higher educational establishment. Not only the age- and sex-related features, but also ethnical features of students living under extreme climatic and geographic conditions were shown to affect education adaptation processes. Junior students of natural ethnicity had lower indices of cardiovascular system function than those of Russian ethnicity and a more adequate adaptive response to study.

[Morphofunctional parameters in the students of Tyva State University].

The paper provides a comparative analysis of some morphofunctional parameters and their trends during education of the students at the Tyva State University. The antropometric studies of the total body sizes and their relative parameters have revealed that the Tuva students show a lower absolute stature, force parameters of dynamometry and the respiratory system. The morphofunctional parameters have a wide range of variability that is determined by not only age-gender-related features, but also regional features.