Dagestan State Pedagogical University (DSPU; Russian: Дагестанский государственный педагогический университет; ДГПУ, Dagestanskiy gosudarstvennyy pedagogicheskiy universitet; DGPU) is a state university[2] in Southern Federal District of Russia located in the city of Makhachkala, the capital of the Republic of Dagestan.

The “History” section of the DSPU site mentions 12 November 1917 when the Pedagogical Institute was opened in the town Temirkhan-Shura (modern Buynaksk).

[5] On 31 July 1951, the institute was named after the national poet of Dagestan Gamzat Tsadasa.

By the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the Dagestan ASSR dated 4 August 1954, No.

In the second half of the 2000s, DSPU ranked second in terms of the number of students among the universities of the Southern Federal District.