A settlement of Vinogradovo situated in the place of the modern town was known at least since the 17th century.
Then a railway was built in the 1900s (decade) and a railway platform was built in 1914.
The settlement started to develop as an airship manufacturing plant was built there in 1931.
The aeronautic engineer Umberto Nobile worked there for five years during the 1930s.
For a few years during the 1930s, the settlement was renamed Dirizhablstroy (meaning "airship building").
In 1951, the famous Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology or Phystech, moved to Dolgoprudny, and a construction of its present campus started in the southern part of the town, inspired by the Nobel Prize winners Pyotr Kapitsa, Lev Landau, and Nikolay Semyonov.
Town status was granted in 1957.
A settlement of Vinogradovo situated in the place of the modern town was known at least since the 17th century. Then a railway was built in the 1900s (decade) and a railway platform was built in 1914. The settlement started to develop as an airship manufacturing plant was built there in 1931. The aeronautic engineer Umberto Nobile worked there for five years during the 1930s. For a few years during the 1930s, the settlement was renamed Dirizhablstroy (meaning "airship building"). In 1951, the famous Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology or Phystech, moved to Dolgoprudny, and a construction of its present campus started in the southern part of the town, inspired by the Nobel Prize winners Pyotr Kapitsa, Lev Landau, and Nikolay Semyonov. Town status was granted in 1957.
Dolgoprudny