The article is devoted to the emergence and formation of the chemical faculty of Perm State National Research University. The period of the appearance of the first chemical departments and the contribution to the formation of the faculty of scientists, who stood at the forefront of the chemical education - D.V. Alekseeva, N.V. Kultasheva, Yu.S. Zalkinda, N.I. Cromera, A.I. Lunyaka. The reasons for the creation of the faculty in 1929, the results of the first year of its existence and the reorganization into a chemical-technological institute are analyzed. The period of restoration of the faculty in 1933 and the contribution of R.V. Mertslin, M.N. Polukarova, G.G. Kobyaka, V.F. Ust- Kachkintseva, D.M. Marko, I.I. Lapkin, as well as graduates of the pre-war chemical faculty who made a significant contribution to the development and formation of the faculty: K.I. Mochalova, I.S. Berdinsky, V.P. Zhivopisetseva and othersBerdinsky, V.P. Zhivopisetseva and others.