In 1930, the Northern Regional Pedagogical Institute was founded on its basis, renamed the Vologda State Pedagogical Institute by order of the People's Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR dated 07/09/1935 No.

In 1950-1952 one of the founders of Soviet and Russian sociology, Igor Kon, taught at the university six lecture courses.

[2] The history of the University began in 1966, and was founded on 15 March 1966 when the General engineering faculty of the North-Western Extramural Polytechnic Institute (NWPI) was founded in Vologda.

1001 of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science was issued which was followed by Order No.

1182 which formalized the two institution's merger into unified entity called Vologda State University.