The history of some pedagogical higher education institutions in the Moldavian SSR, re-established and/or created by the Soviets since the second half of the 1940s, is more or less known, or they were the predecessors of some universities in the Republic of Moldova. The shortage of teachers in the post-war period, generated by the expansion of the Soviet educational system in the Moldavian SSR after 1944 and, after 1949, by the transition to compulsory education of 7 classes in villages and 10 classes in Soviet Moldavian cities, led the authorities to open temporary pedagogical higher education institutions, producing, in particular, teachers for grades V-VII and VIII-X. The author tries to decipher, based on unique archival sources, the ins and outs of the founding process of the Soroca Educational Institute – a pedagogical higher education institution with an ephemeral existence, to which the regime assigned a role of „firefighter” for the shortage of teachers in the public education of the Moldavian SSR.