The purpose of the study: to determine the main provisions of environmental psychiatry in sports as a perspective direction of sports psychiatry and sports medicine. Research methods. Theoretical analysis of scientific literature: generalization, synthesis, formalization, abstraction. Research results and conclusions. The main provisions of epidemiological psychiatry in sports are offered: the subject of research, its prospects for teaching environmental psychiatry in sports in higher educational institutions of physical culture and sports. The main tasks of environmental psychiatry to preserve the mental health of athletes are:
 
 prevention of violations of athletes' mental health and environmental health;
 development of methods for assessing the state of mental health of athletes, taking into account the possible negative effects of environmental environmental factors;
 study of patterns of occurrence of mental disorders and behavioral disorders, borderline states in athletes and their distribution in different sports and different territories with different environmental conditions, taking into account the nature and intensity of negative effects of environmental environmental
 
 The main principles of environmental psychiatry in sports include:
 
 complexity, both in terms of content and direction of scientific and practical activities, involvement of other sciences such as sports psychiatry, sports medicine, environmental epidemiology, sports ecology, environmental medicine, ;
 integrality - integrates knowledge of various sciences, including both medical and environmental;
 industry focus - focus on the mental and, accordingly, environmental health of athletes;
 priority - the priority of provisions for preserving and improving mental and, accordingly, environmental health of It was concluded that environmental sports psychiatry can be considered as a promising direction of sports psychiatry and sports medicine. The main principles and rules of environmental psychiatry in sports, its tasks and place among medical and environmental sciences, first of all, its place in sports medicine, are defined.