To find prevalence of orthostatic hypotension (OH) in elder persons living in community, blood pressure was measured in the supine position and after 1-2 minutes of orthostatist in 1286 elderly persons (499 men and 787 women aged 70.447.54 years). The results showed that the prevalence of OH in elderly persons living in community was 18.5%. There are not any significant difference in OH between men and women. Prevalence of OH in “very old” group (75 years old or more) was higher than in 60 - 74 years old group (30.4% vs. 13.8%). The hypertensive persons had the prevalence of OH higher than that of the normotensive persons.