diff --git a/CHANGES/4648.bugfix b/CHANGES/4648.bugfix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..094eb9d492
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGES/4648.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix supporting WebSockets proxies configured via environment variables.
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.txt b/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
index 5fa48f14ed..1ebe25b7b7 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ Manuel Miranda
 Marat Sharafutdinov
 Marco Paolini
 Mariano Anaya
+Mariusz Masztalerczuk
 Martijn Pieters
 Martin Melka
 Martin Richard
diff --git a/aiohttp/helpers.py b/aiohttp/helpers.py
index 82665e772c..77ecfe2df2 100644
--- a/aiohttp/helpers.py
+++ b/aiohttp/helpers.py
@@ -229,15 +229,16 @@ class ProxyInfo:
 
 def proxies_from_env() -> Dict[str, ProxyInfo]:
     proxy_urls = {k: URL(v) for k, v in getproxies().items()
-                  if k in ('http', 'https')}
+                  if k in ('http', 'https', 'ws', 'wss')}
     netrc_obj = netrc_from_env()
     stripped = {k: strip_auth_from_url(v) for k, v in proxy_urls.items()}
     ret = {}
     for proto, val in stripped.items():
         proxy, auth = val
-        if proxy.scheme == 'https':
+        if proxy.scheme in ('https', 'wss'):
             client_logger.warning(
-                "HTTPS proxies %s are not supported, ignoring", proxy)
+                "%s proxies %s are not supported, ignoring",
+                proxy.scheme.upper(), proxy)
             continue
         if netrc_obj and auth is None:
             auth_from_netrc = None
diff --git a/docs/client_advanced.rst b/docs/client_advanced.rst
index e2007352a5..e8aa05922a 100644
--- a/docs/client_advanced.rst
+++ b/docs/client_advanced.rst
@@ -527,8 +527,8 @@ Contrary to the ``requests`` library, it won't read environment
 variables by default. But you can do so by passing
 ``trust_env=True`` into :class:`aiohttp.ClientSession`
 constructor for extracting proxy configuration from
-*HTTP_PROXY* or *HTTPS_PROXY* *environment variables* (both are case
-insensitive)::
+*HTTP_PROXY*, *HTTPS_PROXY*, *WS_PROXY* or *WSS_PROXY* *environment 
+variables* (all are case insensitive)::
 
    async with aiohttp.ClientSession(trust_env=True) as session:
        async with session.get("http://python.org") as resp:
diff --git a/tests/test_helpers.py b/tests/test_helpers.py
index e46a463c79..19b51aed5d 100644
--- a/tests/test_helpers.py
+++ b/tests/test_helpers.py
@@ -414,31 +414,27 @@ def test_set_content_disposition_bad_param() -> None:
 
 # --------------------- proxies_from_env ------------------------------
 
-def test_proxies_from_env_http(mocker) -> None:
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('protocol', ['http', 'https', 'ws', 'wss'])
+def test_proxies_from_env(monkeypatch, protocol) -> None:
     url = URL('http://aiohttp.io/path')
-    mocker.patch.dict(os.environ, {'http_proxy': str(url)})
-    ret = helpers.proxies_from_env()
-    assert ret.keys() == {'http'}
-    assert ret['http'].proxy == url
-    assert ret['http'].proxy_auth is None
-
-
-def test_proxies_from_env_http_proxy_for_https_proto(mocker) -> None:
-    url = URL('http://aiohttp.io/path')
-    mocker.patch.dict(os.environ, {'https_proxy': str(url)})
+    monkeypatch.setenv(protocol + '_proxy', str(url))
     ret = helpers.proxies_from_env()
-    assert ret.keys() == {'https'}
-    assert ret['https'].proxy == url
-    assert ret['https'].proxy_auth is None
+    assert ret.keys() == {protocol}
+    assert ret[protocol].proxy == url
+    assert ret[protocol].proxy_auth is None
 
 
-def test_proxies_from_env_https_proxy_skipped(mocker) -> None:
-    url = URL('https://aiohttp.io/path')
-    mocker.patch.dict(os.environ, {'https_proxy': str(url)})
-    log = mocker.patch('aiohttp.log.client_logger.warning')
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('protocol', ['https', 'wss'])
+def test_proxies_from_env_skipped(monkeypatch, caplog, protocol) -> None:
+    url = URL(protocol + '://aiohttp.io/path')
+    monkeypatch.setenv(protocol + '_proxy', str(url))
     assert helpers.proxies_from_env() == {}
-    log.assert_called_with('HTTPS proxies %s are not supported, ignoring',
-                           URL('https://aiohttp.io/path'))
+    assert len(caplog.records) == 1
+    log_message = (
+        '{proto!s} proxies {url!s} are not supported, ignoring'.
+        format(proto=protocol.upper(), url=url)
+    )
+    assert caplog.record_tuples == [('aiohttp.client', 30, log_message)]
 
 
 def test_proxies_from_env_http_with_auth(mocker) -> None: