The article deals with the problem of forming a healthy lifestyle of students, provides statistical data on changes in the health of representatives of this group, provides arguments about the need to form a healthy lifestyle of students as a priority task of social development, through social programs and projects for prevention, preservation and promotion of public health. The article analyzes the directions of implementation of the target municipal program «Preserving and strengthening the health of the population of the Khabarovsk city district for 2015-2020», aimed at maintaining and promoting a healthy lifestyle, and notes both positive aspects and shortcomings in its content. The results of the implementation of the municipal grant project for the promotion of healthy lifestyle technologies in educational institutions of the city are presented. A program for training and training of activists and organizers of healthy lifestyle has been developed and presented. Priority areas for preserving and strengthening the health of students have been identified.
