The purpose of the article is to study the volumes, forms, content, specific subjects of grandparental labor, to assess the determinants of the frequency of implementation of this type of labor. We used the data of a sociological survey conducted in May-June 2021. Residents of the Sverdlovsk region who have both minor children and their parents and(or) their spouse’s parents living at the same time were interviewed. The main results are as follows: 1) every fifth parent surveyed uses the help of grandparents on an almost daily basis; the same number-on weekends. In a little more than a quarter of cases, there is no grandparental assistance to families; 2) raising grandchildren is the most common form of assistance to a family with children from the older generation; 3) parents on the part of the child’s mother often perform the functions of grandparental labor than parents on the part of the child’s father; 4) most often, grandparents perform a communicative function; then follows the introduction to work, then accompanying children to various educational institutions, organizing leisure activities, attending cultural events, etc.; 5) in the group of parents who are not helped by grandparents, the average number of children is higher; 6) more intense desire to increase the amount of assistance from the grandparents is expressed by those parents who are currently less often helped by grandparents. The results obtained can be used in the development of tools aimed at activating grandparental labor in Russia, as well as mechanisms for stimulating it.