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Abstract: There was a wide network of arithmetic schools at the state-owned factories of the Urals in the first half of the XVIII century opened by the initiative of Vasily Tatishchev. A special role belonged to the Yekaterinburg school, which was the main educational institution that supplied graduates who were skilled in geometry, trigonometry, drawing, for further education from qualified factory specialists. Yekaterinburg school as a central unit required teachers with a higher level of training than with other factories. In 17241735 Graduates of the capital's educational institutions – the Moscow Artillery School Peter Rybnikov, the Naval Academy Mikhail Kutuzov and Nikita Karkadinov – were sent to it. Since the end of 1735, its graduates – Fyodor Sannikov, Afanasy Kichigin, Yakim Olontsov, Pimen Startsev, Ivan Susorov – have been used exclusively as teachers. If graduates of metropolitan schools, along with mathematics, acquired knowledge and other subjects in the school, then the Urals supported the excellent knowledge of mathematics and drafts obtained in school by learning from the same graduates of the capital who worked in factories in various positions and from the best practitioners – skills of land surveying, assaying, copper smelting, knowledge of geodesy, mechanics, etc. They improved them in the performance of tasks related to the interests of factories. The involvement of teachers in these tasks contributed to the professional growth of teachers. In general, the educational level of teachers was high, which made it possible to make the arithmetic school the main breeding ground for future qualified personnel for the Ural industry.