In 1929 the college was converted into an evening working institution, and from 1931 to the Kryvyi Rih Mining Institute. The following year in Kryvyi Rih, the Institute of Vocational Training was founded. It was reorganized as the Pedagogical Institute. In the prewar period, the institute trained about 1,000 teachers. In 1999, the basis of the State Pedagogical Institute was established as Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University. During
World War II, having been evacuated from 20 September 1941 to August 1944, the Kryvyi Rih Mining Institute relocated to
Nizhny Tagil, Russia. In September 1944 the Institute resumed classes for the students in its original location. It increased the number of specialties, which prepared the engineering staff. Five of its academics have been honored with the
Lenin or
State Prizes. In 1994 the institute became a charter technical university. The proclamation of the
independence of Ukraine in 1991 brought about radical changes in every sphere of university life. In 2011 the
Ukrainian government founded Kryvyi Rih National University by uniting the Mining Institute, Pedagogical University, Economic Institute of
Kyiv National Economic University and the Department of the
National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine. ==Organisation and administration==