Irkutsk Teaching Institute (1909)East-Siberian Institute of People's Education (1918)Pedagogical Faculty of Irkutsk State University (1921)Irkutsk State Pedagogical Institute (1931)Irkutsk State Pedagogical University (1997)East-Siberian State Academy of Education (2009)The Pedagogical Institute of Irkutsk State University (Russian: Педагоги́ческий институ́т Ирку́тского госуда́рственного университе́та) was founded in 1909 in Irkutsk, Siberia as Irkutsk Teaching Institute for training teachers for schools and colleges.

The institute has 3 faculties and 21 departments,[1] and provides education in 9 training directions.

[3] Minor plant 2585 Irpedina, discovered by Soviet astronomer and a graduate of the Institute Nikolay Chernykh, is named after the institute (Chernykh's wife, Lyudmila Chernykh, was also an astronomer and a graduate of the institute).

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