The article deals with the dynamics of existential-value meanings under the influence of the military situation in the world picture of the elderly population. The theoretical model of value orientations study by M. Rokich (Milton Rokeach), “System of life meanings” by V. Y. Kotlyakov, additions and comments of respondents themselves were the methodological basis and method of the study. The peculiarity of the study is also the fact that the system of value meanings of this category of people is a fairly well-established basic factor of personal meanings, but getting into a situation with any extreme conditions for life, a person involuntarily becomes a witness or participant in certain life circumstances, which he did not encounter in the usual peacetime. This involves a certain rethinking of the basic components of a person’s world picture, the analysis of which this study reveals.