Soils preserve the long-term pollution history of an urban environment and heavy metals (HM) still remained topical pollutant of urban soils. The object of this study, the city of Yerevan, is continuing to sustain pollution by HM. The goal of this study is to evaluate Yerevan soils HM pollution through geochemical estimation, mapping and assessment of potential ecological and health risks. The contents of Fe, Ti, Mn, Ba, V, Co, Zn, Cu, Pb, Mo, Ni, Cr, As and Hg were determined (1356 samples) using a portable XRF (Olympus Innov-X, USA). Multivariate geostatistical analyses suggested that the concentrations of Pb, Cu, Zn, Hg, Cr, Ni and Mo were influenced by manmade activities. Enrichment factors showed that topsoils were from uncontaminated to moderately contaminated by V, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, significantly contaminated by Hg. From moderately to extremely high contamination was observed for Pb, and for Mo in samples near Mo concentrate smelting and processing plants. The contents of Pb, Cr, Zn, Ni and Cu exceeded vs. national standards. Single-element potential ecological risk (PER) was higher for Pb and Hg. Considerable multi-element PER was observed in 78.8% of samples, while in 7.0%-mainly located in the industrial part of Yerevan-a very high PER was observed. The health risk assessment showed that adult’s noncarcinogenic risk were detected for 4 samples, while children's noncarcinogenic risk: in the whole area of the city. The riskiest elements were Pb and Cr. The low (acceptable) level of As carcinogenic risk was observed in 99.8% of Yerevan.