Since the first millennium B.C. the territory of the Egorievsk district was inhabited by the Finnish tribes: Merya, Meshchera and Murom. Egorievsk was founded before c16CAD as a market place near St. George (“Egory” in spoken Russian) church. Originally it had a name “Vysokoye” (“The High”). The village of Vysokoye occupied a crossroad of two important ways: Moscow – Kasimov and Kolomna – Vladimir (Russian historical centers). In 1778 Catherine The Great renamed the village to Egoryevsk. In the end of the 19th century the town was significantly reconstructed. Most of those changes came under N.Bardygin, a city mayor from 1872 to 1901 who built a number of churches, schools, and factories. Egorievsk became one of the textile centers of Russia. Later Michael Bardygin continued his father’s business. He has built The Prince Alex Mechanical College (now N. Bardygin Institute of Technology). In 1911 M. Bardygin founded the Egorievsk Museum of History and Fine Arts, the second oldest in the Moscow Region.

The town has not been destroyed during WWII. In the Soviet period the new blocks of flats were being belt apart from the town’s historical center, which preserved the charm of its historical quarters.

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