The work is an attempt to link the results of long-term studies of soil contamination in some industrial zones of Mariupol with heavy metals with a change in the state of the city's economy. A study was made of the results of monitoring soil contamination in industrial zones of Mariupol with heavy metals as a whole for the whole observation period from 2003 to 2017, which allowed creating a database on soil contamination and plotting the contamination of urban soils with heavy metal compounds. The graph shows the results of monitoring the content of heavy metals in the soils of industrial zones in Mariupol. The connection of crisis phenomena and problems in the economy of enterprises with the growth (fall) of soil pollution in the city is considered. These patterns are considered separately for each enterprise and the possible causes of the corresponding trends are given. The main years of production capacity change have been revealed and it is shown that such changes do not always lead to an adequate reduction of soil pollution in industrial zones of the enterprises under consideration.