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 AD16C as a market place and St.George (Egoriy in spoken Russian) monastery. First the settlement had a name Vysokoye ("The High").

Visokoye village occupied a crossroad of two important ways: Moscow - Kasimov and Kolomna - Vladimir (Russian historical centers). In 1778 Catherine II ("The Great") renamed the village to Egoryevsk. In the end of the 19th century the town was significantly reconstracted. Most of those changes were made by N.Bardygin, a city mayor from 1872 to 1901.

A number of churches, schools, factories has were built that time. 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.M.Bardygin Institute of Technology). In 1911 M.Bardigin founded the Egorievsk Museum of History and Fine Arts, one of the finest in Moscow Region.