It was founded on the basis of the Odessa Industrial Institute, which was relocated to Penza by the order of the All-Union Committee for Higher Education under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR "On resumption of activities of Odessa Industrial Institute in the city of Penza" of July 3 1943.

[1] It was opened under the name "Penza Industrial Institute" on November 1,1943 and had 11 departments.

On this basis, the Faculty of Construction Penza Civil Engineering Institute was formed.

On 5th July 1993, the Penza Polytechnical Institute was renamed into Penza State Technical University, by the order of the chairman of the higher education committee of the Russian federation.

They joined the Penza Pedagogical University named after Vissarion Belinsky as a structural unit.