Kоchanov E. O.

Reduction of the Armed Forces of Ukraine provides for the transfer of large areas owned by the Ministry of Defence to the national economy. Specific military activities so that the soil at these areas may be contaminated with various chemicals including petrochemicals and their derivatives. The concept of environmental risk assessment the daily activities of the troops that are related to soil pollution with oil products allows to estimate the impact on the environment under components (atmosphere, hydrosphere, soil) in accordance with existing methods and using the desirability function and determine the predictive value of risk changes in the surrounding natural environment for military installations.

In modern Ukraine there is a tendency of transfer of former military objects in economic use on the social request. Therefore an urgent need for environmental certification and comprehensive environmental assessment of these areas are in conformity with the standards of environmental quality and safety for the life and health population. Article is considered one of the issues associated with the possible use of territories that belonged since independence the Ministry of defence of Ukraine. Defined methodological approaches and offered exam-ples of calculations on the possibility of determination and optimization of territories of former military objects located in the Chuguev district, Kharkiv region.