The university was founded in 1930, opened by the decree of the Central Executive Committee[1] and the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR in October 1930 as the Chuvash State Pedagogical Institute.

In 1934, the departments were reorganized into the faculties of History, Language and Literature, Natural Science, and Physics and Mathematics.

By the decree of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR in 1958, the university was named after the Chuvash teacher-educator Ivan Yakovlevich Yakovlev.

The newspapers "Pedvuzovets", scientific journals of the Higher Attestation Commission "Bulletin of the I.

Yakovlev CHSPU: The series" Mechanics of the limit state»