Tobolsk Pedagogical Institute of Tyumen University, Teacher-training institute in Tobolsk, Russia

The Tobolsk Pedagogical Institute of Tyumen University is a branch of Tyumen State University. Its main building is the late 19th-century former men's classical gymnasium, where 133 students resumed classes in 1939. The institute trains teachers for schools in Tobolsk and the Khanty-Mansi and Yamalo-Nenets districts.

A government decree of 1913 created the Tobolsk Teachers' Institute, the third in Siberia after Irkutsk and Tomsk; teaching began on 6 November 1916 with 45 students. Evacuated to Tomsk in July 1919, it reopened on 27 June 1939 in a former men's classical gymnasium built in the late 19th century. It became a pedagogical institute on 1 September 1954 and took Mendeleev's name on 24 November 1969, the centenary of his periodic table.

The institute's name honours Dmitri Mendeleev, whose periodic table centenary in 1969 prompted the Soviet of Ministers of the RSFSR to attach his name. In 2017 a Change.org petition by Igor Tomilov, on behalf of graduates and staff, gathered nearly 1,200 signatures against the merger with Tyumen State University, which it said had cut three faculties to two departments.

The institute occupies the building of the former men's classical gymnasium, constructed in the late 19th century; the main teaching block stands in Tobolsk's Zavalnoye suburb. It runs programmes at higher, secondary vocational and supplementary levels, with an aspirantura opened in 1989. Prospective students should check current admission and programme details directly with the institute, now a branch of Tyumen State University.

In June 2017 a Change.org petition titled "Save the Tobolsk Pedagogical Institute named after D. I. Mendeleev!" was addressed to Vladimir Putin, education minister Olga Vasilyeva and governor Vladimir Yakovlev's successor Vladimir Yakushev; it gathered nearly 1,200 signatures within three days. The petition, posted by Igor Tomilov on behalf of graduates and staff, said the merger with Tyumen State University had cut master's and doctoral enrolment and merged three faculties into two departments.