Crimean Tatar Pedagogical Institute

The Crimean Tatar Pedagogical Institute (Russian: Крымский татарский педагогический техникум, romanized: Krymskiy tatarskiy pedagogicheskiy tekhnikum), also known as Totayköy Pedagogical Institute (Russian: Тотайкойский педтехникум, romanized: Totayskoyskiy pedtekhnikum), was a Crimean Tatar university which existed from 1922 to 1931.

Originally located in Totayköy (now Fersmanove [uk]), the institute moved to Simferopol, after two years.

The courses were opened in the Kessler-Fersman Castle [ru], then recently nationalised by the Soviet authorities.

In an attempt to amend this issue, the Secretariat of the Crimean Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party established a special preparatory group for the institute.

[1] Among the institute's alumni were Irğat Qadır [crh], Ziyadin Cavtöbeli [crh], Ibraim Bahşiş [ru] Shamil Aladin, Mambet Aliyev [ru], Kerim Camanaqlı [crh], Asan Kasımov, Emirasan Kurtmollayev, Osman Vaapov, Üriye Azizova, Cemil Kence [ru], Zeynep Abbasova, and Dzhebbar Akimov.

The Kessler-Fersman Castle, the institute's location from 1922 to 1924
The Khristoforov Commercial House, the institute's location from 1924 to 1931