On August 6, 2015, Vice Governor of St. Petersburg, Mr. Oleg Markov, paid a working visit to KSRC. Apart from the meeting with Director General, Mr. Vladimir Nikitin, the Vice Governor’s agenda also included familiarization with KSRC test facilities and visits to the three most famous of them: Deep-Water, Rotating-Arm and Ice Basins.

Summing up the results of his visit, Vice Governor, in the name of St. Petersburg government, set the following objectives for the KSRC to accomplish:

— Play an active part in development of an integrated development strategy for logistics & raw materials cluster of St. Petersburg and suggest ideas for further implementation. Vice Governor agreed that Arctic Engineering Centre of KSRC could implement its competences to tackle this task;

— Investigate the current status of fishing fleet so as to take part in development of shipbuilding with respect to fishing fleet, by means of innovative designs to be suggested by Baltsudoproekt design office, a part of KSRC;

Vice Governor was especially interested in the R&D activities regarding electric equipment for ships, as well as to the development in support of marine environmental safety.