In 1952, according to the order of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the Ust-Kamenogorsk Pedagogical Institute (UKPI) was organized, which consisted of 3 faculties (Russian language and literature, physics and mathematics and natural science).
332 students studied at the institute, 30 teachers worked, including 3 candidates of sciences, associate professors.
[2] In 1970, the faculty for advanced training of teachers of pedagogical schools of the Republic of Central Asia and Kazakhstan was created.
[2] In 1984, the UKPI was awarded an honorary diploma of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR for the achieved production successes, high performance in residential premises, cultural and domestic facilities, active work in collective and state farms of the republic.
The university included 8 institutes, a multidisciplinary college, an institute for advanced training of scientific and pedagogical personnel, 5 research institutes, 4 problem research laboratories, a computer technology center, a distance learning center with an information and educational corporate network, a scientific library with bar coding technology and anti-theft system, a publishing house, a museum of history and development of the university, an agro-biological station "Pankratyevsky Garden", an educational and research and production base "Sibina", an educational and production base with subsidiary farming (130 hectares of farmland) "Arshaly", an educational and health-improving complex with swimming pool "Chaika".