Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V. P. Astafyev (KSPU) (Russian: Красноярский государственный педагогический университет имени В. П. Астафьева) is a public university located in the city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, one of the oldest and largest in Siberia. Founded in 1932 as a pedagogical institute. Received university status in 1993. Today it is one of the largest universities in Krasnoyarsk along with the Siberian Federal University and the Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology. KSPU was founded in 1932 by the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR No. 289 as the Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical Institute. The institute had four departments, which accepted 118 students, as well as 50 students of the working faculty. It was located in the building of the former women's gymnasium. Its historical predecessor is considered to be the Krasnoyarsk Institute of Public Education, which existed in Krasnoyarsk in 1920–1924 and was attached to the Irkutsk Institute of Public Education.

School Director: Professor Valery Anatolievich Kovalevsk

Population: 40000

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