In 2019 and 2021, species composition of the ticks provided by citizens was studied at the Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Republic of Karelia (based in Petrozavodsk). As a result, about 2 500 tick specimens were identified as belonging to the following species of the family Ixodidae: Ixodes persulcatus Schulze, 1930, I. ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758), Dermacentor marginatu s (Sulzer, 1776), D. reticulatus Fabricius, 1794, Hyalomma marginatum Koch, 1844, and Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latreille, 1806). For 2% of the ticks, including all species not typically dwelling in Karelia, the attacks occurred outside of Karelia. For districts of Karelia, two species were identified: I. persulca tus (approx. 95% of all ticks delivered) and I. ricinus . Prevalence of pathogens in ticks as analyzed with the use of a commercial kit «AmpliSense® TBEV, B . burgdorferi sl, A . phagocytphillum , E . chaffeensis / E . muris - FL» based on real-time PCR. Prevalence of the tick-borne encephalitis virus in I. persulcatus was 1.5%. In I. ricinus ticks the virus was absent. The prevalence of the Borrelia burgdorferi s. l. and Ehrlichia spp. complex constituted 32.5 and 3.3% in I. persulcatus versus 16.3 and 0.8% in I. ricinus , respectively. A single occurrence of Anaplasma phagocytophillum was found in I. persulcatus (prevalence - 0.04%). The main determinant of the epidemiological situation in Karelia is the wide distribution and high abundance of I. persulcatus .