Unlike the other departments based in Dolgoprudny this one is situated in Zhukovsky, in a result of this the functioning of the department and its traditions are different.
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.