Higher education in the Middle Urals was established by Lenin decree of on October 19, 1920. The structure of the Ural University provided a Polytechnic Institute with chemical-metallurgical faculty. The organizers of the educational process in the metallurgical chair were prominent Russian scientists and leaders of metallurgical plants in the Urals: Grum-Grzhimailo V.E., Sokolov I.A., Sergievskii B.P., Golovin F.A., Steinberg S.A. The authors have consistently reviewed the activities of the team of teachers in the period of industrialization of the country during the Second World War, in the postwar period and after the establishment of the Institute of Materials Science and Metallurgy in the Ural Federal University named after the first President of RF B.N. Yeltsin.