Dolgoprudny (Russian: Долгопрудный), sometimes colloquially shortened as Dolgopa and also transliterated into English as Dolgoprudnyj or Dolgoprudnij, is a city north of Moscow, where the Savyolovo railway crosses the Moscow Canal. Dolgoprudny used to be an airships construction city and now has machinery-building and engineering industries. It is the site of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. There exist many possible systems for transliterating the Cyrillic alphabet of the Russian language to English or the Latin alphabet. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (abbreviated Phystech or MIPT, Russian language: Физтех or МФТИ) is one of the better known Russian universities, sometimes referred to as the Russian MIT. The Institutes primary facilities are located in Dolgoprudny, Moscows satellite town. ...
Though the 2002 census places the population of Dolgoprudny at 68,792, in 2004 the population was estimated to have increased to 74,000.
It borders Moscow in the south and in the east, Khimki in the south-west, and is limited by the Moscow Canal in the west and by the Klyazminskoye Reservoir in the north.
Dolgoprudny is a small urban area and has its own distinct atmosphere very different from Moscow.
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