Introduction: Among the factors that have a negative effect on the soil cover is the use of anti-ice reagents con-taining chlorides in winter, which leads to soil salinization. As a result of halochemical contamination, the water potential of the soil decreases, which leads to a water supply interruption of the plant. High level of salt concen-trations in the soil decreases the vitality and growth of plants, negatively affects the plants condition, micro and mycobiota. Purpose: evaluation of chloride contamination of soils near roadways and walkways in different functional zones of Yoshkar-Ola. Materials and methods.The object of the study were the soils near the road-way and walkways in the residential, industrial and recreational zones of Yoshkar-Ola. Sampling, sample prepa-ration and chloride content identification by the argentometric method according to Mohr were carried out in accordance with the actual regulatory documentation. Research results, discussion. The concentration of chlo-ride ions near roads and on lawns varies from 0.007 to 0.043 %. Cluster analysis made it possible to divide all the streets in the residential zone into 3 groups: the first group included streets where the content of chlorine ions was more than 0.03%; the second group consists of streets, in the urbal soils of which the chloride content varies from 0.02 to 0.03 %; in soils of the third group, the values of this indicator are less than 0.02 %. The difference between different functional zones of Yoshkar-Ola by the content of chlorine ions in the soils is not statistically significant. Conclusion. According to the degree of salinization with chlorides, the soils of all functional zones are unsalted, which indicates that the use of a sand-salt mixture as an anti-icing reagent on the territory of Yoshkar-Ola does not lead to a salt loan on the soil.