On 27 June 1939, by the Decree of
the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR, on the basis of the Nizhny Tagil Pedagogical School, the Nizhny Tagil Teachers' Institute was established with a two-year training period, which is under the jurisdiction of
the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR. Three educational departments (faculties) were created in the structure of the institute: historical, philological and physical and mathematical. In 1939, the first one hundred and twenty students were recruited by the institute, and already in 1941, the first graduation of teachers for general education schools in the specializations of the institute took place. From 1941 to 1944, during the Great Patriotic War, the Krivoy Rog Mining Institute and the Ordzhonikidzegrad Machine-Building Institute evacuated from the occupied territories were placed in the classrooms and educational buildings of the Nizhny Tagil Teachers' Institute. From 1941 to 1944, about four hundred teachers graduated from the Institute. Since 1948, evening and correspondence three-year departments were created in the structure of the institute, as well as four educational departments (departments): physical and mathematical, natural geographical, philological and historical. From 1941 to 1952, about 1,760 teachers for secondary schools graduated from the Institute. On 11 August 1952, by the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 3692 and the order of
the USSR Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education, the Nizhny Tagil Teachers' Institute was reorganized into the Nizhny Tagil State Pedagogical Institute, which became a higher educational institution. M. M. Kozhevnikov was appointed the first rector. The structure of the Institute consisted of two
faculties: Physics and Mathematics and Russian Language and Literature and seven general institute departments: Physics, Mathematics, Pedagogy and Psychology, Geography, Natural Science, Fundamentals of
Marxism–Leninism, Russian Language and Literature. In 1953, the Faculty of Chemistry and Biology was established, in 1959, the Engineering-Pedagogical and Artistic-Graphic Faculty were established within the structure of the Institute, with a five-year training period. In the same year, four more general institute departments were created: pedagogy, philosophy, foreign languages and physical education. On April 9, 1966, by the decision of the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR, the institute was assigned the second qualification category. Since 1979, the structure of the institute consisted of seven faculties: history, foreign languages, industrial-pedagogical, artistic-graphic, physical-mathematical, chemical-biological and
Russian language and literature, as well as twenty-three general institute departments. The teaching staff of the institute included 257 teachers, 2400 people studied in the day department, 1575 people in the correspondence department, 115 people in the preparatory department. In 1988, V. I. Smirnov was elected the new rector. In 1989, the faculty of pre-university training and vocational guidance was established at the institute, and in 1991, the Nizhny Tagil secondary specialized school No. 75 was established as the training base of the institute. personnel in ten specialties. The structure of the institute consists of six faculties and nine general institute departments. == Management ==