Halurgy is a field of science and technology for exploration, mining, dressing and comprehensive processing of natural mineral salts

The history of the institute establishment is directly related to the development of potash industry in the country and in the world.

Development of national reserves of potash salts in Russia began in the 1920s of the 20th century. In 1925, the Verkhnekamskoye potash deposit, the world’s largest potash deposit, was discovered in the Urals. One of the discoverers of commercial reserves was Pavel I. Preobrazhenskiy. In 1927 after one and half a year of the work the first exploration brigade near Solikamsk found out that the potash deposits here are enormous and they are closer to the ground surface than in Germany and France. At that time a construction of the First Potash Plant started, named after the 10^th anniversary of the October Revolution.