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The study was conducted to identify psychological reactions of students during spring COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Moscow, and emergency transition to distance learning. Method. A qualitative analysis of written discourses of young men (35%), and women (65%) 20-23 years old (n = 97) university students about their lifestyles during pandemic, distance learning and self-isolation; additional self-assessment scales. Results. Lifestyle changes during lockdown introduction were recorded in 93% of essays (49% consider them significant). Way of life changes were mostly observed in educational and social activities. There was a slight manifestation of negative emotional states (fears, anxiety and depressive symptoms, as well as traumatic tendencies). Students’ discourses contained statements mostly testifying focus on understanding of changes in family relations, bodily, mental life (including emotional, cognitive and behavioral components). Three attitude modes to pandemic were identified: 1) negative (33.5% of statements); 2) neutral or ambivalent (39%); 3) 27.5% - noted the positive aspects of individual situations. Focus on solving life problems, overcoming conditions caused by social, spatial limitations, as well as the desire to move from family tension to mutual help, care and support. Conclusions. The adaptation period (spring 2020), caused by an urgent transition to the new conditions of distance education is characterized by: unexpressed level of anxiety, an average high level of perceived well-being, activity and mood, satisfaction in significant areas of life (educational and social), an average level of frustration. Effective resources for coping with isolation stressors are represented by behavior and personality work aimed: 1) at self-organization, adherence to daily routine, performing learning tasks, maintaining physical shape and appearance; self-development, restraining negative feelings); 2) at others (help and emotional support to relatives, friends, people in general); 3) on living space (keeping the house clean; working with space to expand its multifunctionality, arranging it for yourself. The study identified the most vulnerable category need of help - those who use the strategy of suffering, victimization.