[2] "To open the Urals Industrial and Pedagogical Institute in Sverdlovsk for the training of teaching personnel for schools, FZU and FES" (decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR No.

In November 1932 branches of Rabfak were established at Uralmash and in cities of Ural region: Nizhni Tagil, Chelyabinsk, Sarapul, Nevyansk, Irbit, Alapaevsk, Kushva, Verkhnaya Salda, Aramil and others.

[3] In 1934 the Institute introduced a system of faculties, the following departments were established: History and Economics, Literature, Physics and Mathematics, Pedagogy, Chemistry.

During the World War II 57 teachers and staff members and 186 students of the Institute joined the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army as volunteers.

In January 1943 the first students (37 persons) who had been demobilized due to wounds or other reasons started to come back to the institute.