diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index ad070b30..758c52ea 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -235,3 +235,4 @@ that much better:
  * Steven Rossiter (https://github.com/BeardedSteve)
  * Luo Peng (https://github.com/RussellLuo)
  * Bryan Bennett (https://github.com/bbenne10)
+ * Gilb's Gilb's (https://github.com/gilbsgilbs)
diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 69555b95..c34094a7 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Changes in 0.10.7 - DEV
 - Add `signal_kwargs` argument to `Document.save`, `Document.delete` and `BaseQuerySet.insert` to be passed to signals calls #1206
 - Raise `OperationError` when trying to do a `drop_collection` on document with no collection set.
 - count on ListField of EmbeddedDocumentField fails. #1187
+- Fixed long fields stored as int32 in Python 3. #1253
 
 Changes in 0.10.6
 =================
diff --git a/mongoengine/fields.py b/mongoengine/fields.py
index 6f69465c..c807809a 100644
--- a/mongoengine/fields.py
+++ b/mongoengine/fields.py
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ else:
 import pymongo
 import gridfs
 from bson import Binary, DBRef, SON, ObjectId
+try:
+    from bson.int64 import Int64
+except ImportError:
+    Int64 = long
 
 from mongoengine.errors import ValidationError
 from mongoengine.python_support import (PY3, bin_type, txt_type,
@@ -227,6 +231,9 @@ class LongField(BaseField):
             pass
         return value
 
+    def to_mongo(self, value, **kwargs):
+        return Int64(value)
+
     def validate(self, value):
         try:
             value = long(value)
diff --git a/tests/document/indexes.py b/tests/document/indexes.py
index 7ee017a6..e13d8b84 100644
--- a/tests/document/indexes.py
+++ b/tests/document/indexes.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import sys
 sys.path[0:0] = [""]
 
 import pymongo
+from random import randint
 
 from nose.plugins.skip import SkipTest
 from datetime import datetime
@@ -16,9 +17,11 @@ __all__ = ("IndexesTest", )
 
 
 class IndexesTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    _MAX_RAND = 10 ** 10
 
     def setUp(self):
-        self.connection = connect(db='mongoenginetest')
+        self.db_name = 'mongoenginetest_IndexesTest_' + str(randint(0, self._MAX_RAND))
+        self.connection = connect(db=self.db_name)
         self.db = get_db()
 
         class Person(Document):
@@ -32,10 +35,7 @@ class IndexesTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.Person = Person
 
     def tearDown(self):
-        for collection in self.db.collection_names():
-            if 'system.' in collection:
-                continue
-            self.db.drop_collection(collection)
+        self.connection.drop_database(self.db)
 
     def test_indexes_document(self):
         """Ensure that indexes are used when meta[indexes] is specified for
@@ -822,33 +822,29 @@ class IndexesTest(unittest.TestCase):
             name = StringField(required=True)
             term = StringField(required=True)
 
-        class Report(Document):
+        class ReportEmbedded(Document):
             key = EmbeddedDocumentField(CompoundKey, primary_key=True)
             text = StringField()
 
-        Report.drop_collection()
-
         my_key = CompoundKey(name="n", term="ok")
-        report = Report(text="OK", key=my_key).save()
+        report = ReportEmbedded(text="OK", key=my_key).save()
 
         self.assertEqual({'text': 'OK', '_id': {'term': 'ok', 'name': 'n'}},
                          report.to_mongo())
-        self.assertEqual(report, Report.objects.get(pk=my_key))
+        self.assertEqual(report, ReportEmbedded.objects.get(pk=my_key))
 
     def test_compound_key_dictfield(self):
 
-        class Report(Document):
+        class ReportDictField(Document):
             key = DictField(primary_key=True)
             text = StringField()
 
-        Report.drop_collection()
-
         my_key = {"name": "n", "term": "ok"}
-        report = Report(text="OK", key=my_key).save()
+        report = ReportDictField(text="OK", key=my_key).save()
 
         self.assertEqual({'text': 'OK', '_id': {'term': 'ok', 'name': 'n'}},
                          report.to_mongo())
-        self.assertEqual(report, Report.objects.get(pk=my_key))
+        self.assertEqual(report, ReportDictField.objects.get(pk=my_key))
 
     def test_string_indexes(self):
 
@@ -909,26 +905,38 @@ class IndexesTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
         Issue #812
         """
+        # Use a new connection and database since dropping the database could
+        # cause concurrent tests to fail.
+        connection = connect(db='tempdatabase',
+                             alias='test_indexes_after_database_drop')
+
         class BlogPost(Document):
             title = StringField()
             slug = StringField(unique=True)
 
-        BlogPost.drop_collection()
+            meta = {'db_alias': 'test_indexes_after_database_drop'}
 
-        # Create Post #1
-        post1 = BlogPost(title='test1', slug='test')
-        post1.save()
+        try:
+            BlogPost.drop_collection()
 
-        # Drop the Database
-        self.connection.drop_database(BlogPost._get_db().name)
+            # Create Post #1
+            post1 = BlogPost(title='test1', slug='test')
+            post1.save()
 
-        # Re-create Post #1
-        post1 = BlogPost(title='test1', slug='test')
-        post1.save()
+            # Drop the Database
+            connection.drop_database('tempdatabase')
+
+            # Re-create Post #1
+            post1 = BlogPost(title='test1', slug='test')
+            post1.save()
+
+            # Create Post #2
+            post2 = BlogPost(title='test2', slug='test')
+            self.assertRaises(NotUniqueError, post2.save)
+        finally:
+            # Drop the temporary database at the end
+            connection.drop_database('tempdatabase')
 
-        # Create Post #2
-        post2 = BlogPost(title='test2', slug='test')
-        self.assertRaises(NotUniqueError, post2.save)
 
     def test_index_dont_send_cls_option(self):
         """
diff --git a/tests/fields/fields.py b/tests/fields/fields.py
index 1c1f49ad..9af87f7f 100644
--- a/tests/fields/fields.py
+++ b/tests/fields/fields.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import uuid
 import math
 import itertools
 import re
+import six
 
 try:
     import dateutil
@@ -21,6 +22,10 @@ except ImportError:
 from decimal import Decimal
 
 from bson import Binary, DBRef, ObjectId
+try:
+    from bson.int64 import Int64
+except ImportError:
+    Int64 = long
 
 from mongoengine import *
 from mongoengine.connection import get_db
@@ -3605,6 +3610,19 @@ class FieldTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
         self.assertRaises(FieldDoesNotExist, test)
 
+    def test_long_field_is_considered_as_int64(self):
+        """
+        Tests that long fields are stored as long in mongo, even if long value
+        is small enough to be an int.
+        """
+        class TestLongFieldConsideredAsInt64(Document):
+            some_long = LongField()
+
+        doc = TestLongFieldConsideredAsInt64(some_long=42).save()
+        db = get_db()
+        self.assertTrue(isinstance(db.test_long_field_considered_as_int64.find()[0]['some_long'], Int64))
+        self.assertTrue(isinstance(doc.some_long, six.integer_types))
+
 
 class EmbeddedDocumentListFieldTestCase(unittest.TestCase):