In the article there are considered questions of legal regulation of the admission of foreign nationals (or individuals without nationality) to work in decreed professions in the Russian Federation. To date migration processes are shown to affect not only the demographic situation in our country, but the level of infectious diseases rates, especially in large cities. The health status of the population depends directly on the literacy level of workers in various industries, especially decreed contingents of high epidemiological risk. It is noted that along with the medical examination of foreign citizens (persons without citizenship) for issuance of a work permit or a patent in the Russian Federation in the framework of the immigration laws in Bodies of internal. Affairs, the law provides for obligatory preliminary and periodic medical examinations for certain types of work with registration of personal medical books, the passage of professional hygienic preparation and certification. These kinds of economic activities include organizations associated with the production, storage, transportation and sale of food products and drinking water, the upbringing and education of children, municipal and consumer services. There are considered provisions of the main legal acts in the volume of medical examinations and obligatory knowledge of Russian for obtaining the work permit of migrants. There are identified key organizational-legal and methodological and problematic aspects that require coordination of activities of state structures and functioning of enterprises. The training of the special contingent is noted to contribute to the improvement of medical-hygienic knowledge among foreign citizens and the population, prevention of infectious diseases, the formation of understanding the need for positive changes in lifestyle, and support the desire to change, contributes to the creation of appropriate motivation in relation to their health, development of skills of a healthy lifestyle. There are analyzed issues of the awareness of employees about the necessity of medical prevention, including healthy lifestyle, the main causes of non-compliance of legislation.
