The article of Ural historians shows the formation of higher chemical education in Yekaterinburg-Sverdlovsk in the period from 1917 to 1930. On the basis of new archival documents, the stages of its formation are reflected, which took place against the background of regular reorganizations in the rapidly developing city of the Urals. It was revealed that the process was non-linear, as it took place in conditions of constantly changing political, economic, cultural attitudes from the change of the political regime, civil war, new economic policy, to the first five-year plan providing for the accelerated industrialization of the country. On the basis of archival documents, the conditions of education of the first students of the chemical and chemical-metallurgical faculties are shown, statistics are presented on the number of students, the teaching staff, as well as on the structure of the educational institution and its funding. In addition, in the published correspondence between the university leadership and the higher organizations in charge of higher professional education, the complex history of the formation of a new specialty for the Ural region - a chemical engineer - is highlighted. Shows the key moment in the formation of this specialty and the transition to mass training of specialists associated with the decision to «chemizatsii» the national economy in a young state. Presented are scientists chemists and metallurgists who played a significant role in the creation and development of higher engineering chemical education in the Urals - Professor A.E. Makovetskiy, N.N. Baraboshkin, N.F. Yushkevich. Attention was also paid to the first graduates of the faculty, including O.A. Esin, A.K. Sharova, K.N. Shabalin, who later became famous scientists - leaders of scientific directions in the region and teachers of UPI.