Petersburg railway, on the coast of Senezh Lake, 65 kilometers (40 mi) northwest from Moscow.

[8] During World War II, Solnechnogorsk was briefly occupied by the German 4th Panzer Group from November 24 to December 12, 1941.

[9] It was one of the towns that was captured in the northern pincer of the attempted German encirclement of Moscow.

[1] As an administrative division, it is, together with twenty-five rural localities, incorporated within Solnechnogorsky District as the Town of Solnechnogorsk.

Not far from Solnechnogorsk is the estate of Shakhmatovo that once belonged to a prominent Russian poet Alexander Blok; a museum of him has been opened there.