Initially, the structure of the institute consisted of three faculties: physics and mathematics, history and philology and foreign languages.
In 1958, a new specialty of a secondary school teacher in physical education, anatomy and physiology was opened at the institute.
As a result of these studies, a large number of new monuments, settlements and burial grounds of various eras were discovered: rivers: Alabuga, Kurtamysh, Miass, Sueri, Tobol and Chernaya.
From 1952 to 1985, the research work of the institute was carried out in the following areas: pedagogical foundations for teaching and educating schoolchildren and students of pedagogical universities, issues of local history, issues of industrial and agricultural production, theoretical foundations of science.
Over the years of its existence, the institute has trained more than twelve thousand teachers for secondary schools in various specializations.