Yuri Trutnev: The shipbuilding complex “Zvezda” has brought heavy shipbuilding back to Russia

Published on: 2026-05-25

Source: Government of the Russian Federation –

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On the eve of the opening of the reporting and program forum “There is a result!”, dedicated to the development of territories under the national program “United Russia”, Deputy Chairman of the Government – Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev, Secretary of the Party General Council, First Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council Vladimir Yakushev, and Governor of Primorsky Krai Oleg Kozhemyako visited the shipbuilding complex “Zvezda” in the city of Bolshoy Kamen and met with the company’s workers; they inspected apartments and social infrastructure for the employees of the LLC “SSK Zvezda” enterprise, provided new apartments for orphans and to the relocated people from the emergency housing in the city of Bolshoy Kamen, as well as in Vladivostok, they inspected the Innovation and Production Center of DVFU and the advanced engineering school of DVFU “Institute of Biotechnology, Bioengineering and Food Systems”.

“The shipbuilding complex ‘Zvezda’ has returned to Russia heavy shipbuilding, and the development of gas and oil fields is simply impossible without ‘Zvezda’. Today, the only safe and reliable sea route on the planet is the Northern Sea Route. All other ones depend on a whole range of political circumstances. We need to develop the Northern Sea Route. If we talk about the entire SevMorPut program, it is more than a hundred ships. We will be engaged in this. This work is carried out under the instruction of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. ‘Zvezda’ was also created on his instruction.””We try to ensure that the project develops,” said Yuri Trutnev.

Vladimir Yakushev emphasized that a number of companies from Russia influenced the accelerated development of domestic industry. “Today, it is simply impossible to turn off this path. We are moving in the absolutely right direction. And for achieving technological sovereignty, we have good performance indicators. It is necessary to move forward, catch up and overtake, so that such productions [like the Zvezda factory] appear throughout the country. The state must support enterprises, provide loans, offer concessional leasing—these are the mechanisms and tools that work,” Vladimir Yakushev explained.

SSK “Zvezda” is intended for the production of large-tonnage ships, ice-class ships, special vessels, and other types of marine technology with a displacement of up to 350 thousand tons, some of which were not previously produced on Russian territory. The shipyard project includes already commissioned and operating facilities, as well as under-construction second-phase facilities, including full-cycle production facilities and shipbuilding facilities for offshore marine technology.

The shipyard’s capabilities allow the use of the most efficient construction method — large-block construction: vessels are assembled from blocks equipped with equipment weighing up to 3.5 thousand tons, which exceeds the existing capabilities of other Russian plants sixfold. Also, among the technological advantages of “Zvezda” is a high degree of production automation. Thanks to this, the facilities and characteristics of “Zvezda” can build any ships and marine technology without restrictions on tonnage and dimensions, and by the time construction is completed, the shipyard’s capacity will exceed 330 thousand tons of metal per year.

More than 6 thousand employees work at “Zvezda”, and by the completion of the construction of all the facilities, the team should number about 7.5 thousand people.

For the employees of SSK “Zvezda” in the city of Bolshoy Kamen, housing is being built in the seventh microdistrict. The housing delivery program has been implemented since 2016. In five microdistricts, 44 residential buildings with 3,106 apartments have already been put into operation. A total of over 5 thousand apartments will be built. “Today we received another request from the people. They are asking for a leisure center. If they are asking, then we will have to figure out how we will finance it. We will build this center,” said Yuri Trutnev.

On the same day, Yuri Trutnev, Vladimir Yakushev, and Oleg Kozhemyako visited the Innovation and Production Center of DVFU and the advanced engineering school of DVFU “Institute of Biotechnology, Bioengineering, and Food Systems.” Rector of the university Boris Korobets reported on the development of new technologies.

The Innovation and Production Center of DVFU (IPC) will be built jointly with the government of Primorsky Krai in 2024–2025. This infrastructure provides an experimental production base for creating new high-tech products. The center allows small enterprises starting production of high-tech products that require connections with the university’s research infrastructure and quick access to the university’s personnel potential to be located there. By the end of 2026, up to 50 new jobs will be created for new IPC residents and another 50 students will be accepted for internships.

“We pay special attention to the implementation of the DVFU’s key strategic direction – the project ‘Bioeconomy and Health Preservation.’ Our scientists’ solutions are based on the unique natural and marine resources of the Far East. It is precisely this that allows us, together with institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences and industrial partners, to contribute to the development of the bioeconomy of our country, create unique biomedical technologies for the world, and enhance Russia’s technological sovereignty,” said Boris Korobets.

The advanced engineering school of DVFU “Institute of Biotechnology, Bioengineering, and Food Systems” is the main competence center of the Far Eastern Federal District for the creation and development of technologies for various bioeconomy sectors. The school was established in 2022 as part of the federal project “Advanced Engineering Schools” and is among 30 leading scientific and educational centers in the country designated by the Government of the Russian Federation. It is a scientific co-executor of the national project for technological leadership “Technological Support of the Bioeconomy.”The school addresses the tasks of three sectoral federal projects: “Production of bioeconomy products,” “Science for bioeconomy,” “Personnel for bioeconomy.” The implementation of new technological solutions developed by scientists and bioengineers of the advanced engineering school of DVFU, in the agro-industrial complex, pharmaceuticals, livestock farming, initiates the creation of new high-tech production and new companies with potential in the global market. This directly creates new jobs in the region, requiring highly qualified specialists.Thus, the DVFU system, which includes schools, scientific laboratories, production sites, and a territory with a preferential regime (INTS), allows for the comprehensive development of a biotechnological cluster in the Far East.

The delegation visited the Interactive Museum of Modern Biotechnology of the Advanced Engineering School of DVFU, created with the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russia. The museum addresses the task of immersing young people in the achievements of Russian and Far Eastern biotechnological science and introduces the significance of biotechnological professions. Over two years, more than 640 thousand people from 17 regions of Russia have taken part in online and offline tours of the museum.Immersion of schoolchildren in the material occurs in an interactive format, for example – the installation “Spiral of Evolution”: at the center of the exhibition is a key piece of equipment of the microbiological industry – (bioreactor) fermenter. The bioreactor demonstrates the cultivation of microorganisms, cells, and other biological objects under controlled conditions. Special educational spaces “Agrocollaboration” and “Smart Plant Factory”, SO2-extraction engineering center, educational laboratories of microbiology, analytical chemistry, and classrooms were presented.

An exhibition of unmanned aerial vehicles was also presented at the DVFU site. “We reviewed the unmanned aerial vehicles presented for civil and dual-use purposes. The range of use of drones is quite wide. Literally three days ago I returned from China, where I was on a trip on assignment from the President of the Russian Federation. There, of course, everything is taken very seriously with drones. But we are definitely moving in the right direction. I often visit exhibitions and drone manufacturing facilities, observing how drones are applied in combat zones.”We will help and support production data. Movement is underway. The difference is visible between what we produced earlier and what we produce now. But we still have somewhere to strive for,” said Yuri Trutnev.

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