According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Vice-President of Rosneft Konstantin Laptev has been appointed Director General of Modern Shipbuilding Technologies. Konstantin Laptev is also a Deputy Chairman of the Far Eastern Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Center’s BoD and the Director of Rosneft’s department for technique and technology localization. The form of incorporation of Modern Shipbuilding Technologies has been changed from closed joint stock company to joint stock company.
From 2002 till March 2011 Konstantin Laptev held the post of ZIL Director.
A consortium established by Rosneft and Gazprombank in the form of joint stock company Modern Shipbuilding Technologies is creating an industrial and shipbuilding cluster in the Far East on the bases of the Far Eastern Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Center. The project on creation of shipbuilding complex Zvezda at Bolshoi Kamen (Primorsk Territory) is supposed to become a core of the cluster.