Аннотация:The article is devoted to the optimal adaptation strategies for shift workers of oil and gas, diamond and forestry industries in the Far North and the Arctic in the context of psychological readiness for activity. The study involved 297 shift workers in three production areas aged from 21 to 63 years (average age 38,9 ± 0,61). Research methods: documentary analysis, questionnaires,surveys and psychological testing, descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis of variance. The statistics is processed by SPSSFor the optimal type of adaptation strategy for shift workers in forestry, oil and gas production we defined an economical differentiated type predominantly expressed in the same regulatory processes of both when entering the profession in a variety of situations so as in a conscious allocating of internal resources within the shift period. The emergency differentiated type of adaptation strategy is optimal for shift workers in a diamond mining production. This type is characterized by the use of various regulatory processes depending on professional situations and wasteful spending of innerresources during the shift. The adaptation strategies can be referred to the volitional characteristics of psychological readiness for shift work in the Far North and the Arctic.