On 24 July 1944, by the Decree of
the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR No. 884 and the order of the People's Commissariat of Ferrous Metallurgy of the USSR No. 342, the Nizhny Tagil Institute of Technology was established to train engineering and technical personnel. E. K. Vyatkin was appointed the first rector of the institute. The institute was allocated three buildings on Uralskaya Street in Nizhny Tagil. The structure of the institute included twenty-five general institute departments and three faculties: mechanical, mining and metallurgical and evening. In 1944, the first hundred students were admitted to the first year of the institute, students from the Bezhitsk Mechanical Engineering Institute and the
Kryvyi Rih National University evacuated to the rear of the country were enrolled in the senior courses of the institute. In the early years, due to a shortage of full-time teaching staff, lectures were given to students by invited teachers from other higher educational institutions, among the invited lecturers was Professor
Boris Rauschenbach. In 1946, the institute graduated the first thirteen people from the evening department as engineers with a degree in mechanical engineering technology. On 1 July 1947, by order of
the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of the USSR, the Nizhny Tagil Institute of Technology was reorganized and merged with the Ural Polytechnic Institute named after S. M. Kirov as the Nizhny Tagil Correspondence Department. In 1947, five hundred and thirty-seven students studied at the institute, who mastered nine specialties; the institute staff consisted of about one hundred teachers. On 15 September 1950, by order of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of the USSR, the Nizhny Tagil Correspondence Department was transformed into the Nizhny Tagil Evening Department, consisting of two faculties: ferrous metallurgy and engineering technology. On 21 July 1953, by order of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of the USSR, on the basis of the Nizhny Tagil Correspondence Department, the Nizhny Tagil Faculty of Correspondence and Evening Education was established, in which training was conducted in ten engineering and technical specialties. In 1956, the first forty-four engineers graduated from the faculty. In 1969, a preparatory department was opened as part of the faculty. From 1944 to 2019, the institute trained 20 thousand engineering and technical personnel. == Management ==