Dolgoprudny
| Dolgoprudny (English) Долгопрудный (Russian) |
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| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Moscow Oblast |
| Administratively subordinated to | Dolgoprudny Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction |
| Administrative center of | Dolgoprudny Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction |
| Municipal status (as of June 2011) | |
| Urban okrug | Dolgoprudny Urban Okrug |
| Administrative center of | Dolgoprudny Urban Okrug |
| Head | Oleg Troitsky |
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| Population (2010 Census) | 90,956 inhabitants |
| - Rank in 2010 | 187th |
| Time zone | MSK (UTC+03:00) |
| Town status since | 1957 |
| Postal code(s) | 141700 |
| Dialing code(s) | +7 495 |
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Dolgoprudny (Russian: Долгопру́дный) is a town in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located about 20 kilometers (12 mi) north of Moscow city center. The town's name is derived from Russian "Долгий пруд" (dolgy prud, lit. "long pond")—a long and narrow pond situated in the northeastern part of the town. The town's name is sometimes colloquially shortened as Dolgopa. Population: 90,956 (2010 Census);68,792 (2002 Census);70,751 (1989 Census).
The territory of the town borders with Moscow in the south and in the east, Khimki in the southwest, and is limited by the Moscow Canal in the west and by the Klyazminskoye Reservoir in the north. The town can be reached by suburban train from the Savyolovsky Terminal of Moscow in about twenty minutes to one of the three platforms: Novodachnaya, Dolgoprudnaya, or Vodniki, or by bus shuttle from Rechnoy Vokzal and Altufyevo stations of the Moscow Metro. The Dmitrovskoye highway connecting Moscow with Dmitrov and Dubna passes just east of the town.
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 Fiztekh, 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.
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