The relevance of the investigated problem is determined, first, by the understanding of the objective interconnection between the level of economic development and corresponding changes in the social sector. Second, it is determined by the fact that the creation and optimal development of innovative and knowledge-intensive industrial sectors are inconceivable without considering the existing adapted experience accumulated by pre-revolutionary industrialists and entrepreneurs. In the authors’ view, the practical experience of the owners of the largest knowledge-intensive industrial enterprises of the Russian Empire is of particular research interest. The research aims to briefly examine the level of production development in a specific large and knowledge-intensive industrial enterprise to designate it as a city-forming enterprise, capable of exerting a decisive influence on the creation and subsequent improvement of the “all-class” urban environment during the modernization of Russia in the second half of the nineteenth century to the early twentieth centuries. The presented research is based on the principles of historicism, objectivity, a social approach, and a comprehensive study of history; on the understanding and practical application that history is an interdisciplinary science; on the fundamental theoretical positions of the scientific works of M. I. Tugan-Baranovsky, M. Weber, and D. Bell. The research establishes that the large, advanced, and knowledge-intensive chemical production in the city of Kazan, operating in the conditions of a market economy, served as a factor in the industrial development of the city and region and contributed to significant and qualitative changes in the social sector. It is natural that many objects of the “all-class” urban environment and urban infrastructure emerged precisely during the era of growing and then turbulent development of trade and industrial activities, conducted in the conditions of a market economy and corresponding changes in pre-revolutionary Russian legislation. Other researchers can use the materials and authors’ conclusions presented within the research to explore further the peculiarities of the emergence, formation, and development of advanced industrial enterprises and their impact on regional social dynamics.