The relevance of the research topic is due to the fact that the activities of employees of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia are associated with the influence of various adverse factors on their work, such as the negative impact of criminal acts, the complexity of operational investigative, procedural, administrative activities, falling under the influence of corrupt officials, and so on. A special feature of the work of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia is that it covers all types and areas of state security of the country. In this regard, the work of the heads of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia is subject to stress and emotional pressure. As a result, there may be situations when employees stop performing their professional duties efficiently, that is, we are talking about their professional burnout. This negative phenomenon affects all categories of employees of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia, but it is in relation to managers that the topic under consideration is of particular interest. The problem of the research lies, first, in the infancy of the conceptual apparatus, namely the lack of a uniform definition of the terms occupational stress, professional burnout and emotional burnout of head of the territorial body of the MIA of Russia. Secondly, not enough attention is paid to psychoprevention measures, which makes it necessary to develop recommendations for the prevention of emotional burnout of heads of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia. The purpose of the study is to develop recommendations for the prevention of emotional burnout and stress tolerance in the official activities of heads of territorial bodies of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia. Literature analysis, synthesis, generalization and systematization of materials, method of empirical-theoretical General scientific description First, from the perspective of the vocational service activities of the head of the territorial body of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia refined the definitions of the following terms: professional stress, professional burnout, emotional burnout of the head of the territorial body of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia. Secondly, recommendations have been developed for the prevention of emotional burnout of heads of territorial bodies of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia.