Open Joint Stock Company Aero-engine Scientific and Technical Complex «Soyuz» begins its history from February 18, 1943 as "Pilot factory № 300". The founder of the enterprise was A.A. Mikulin. Since October 2005 the head of AESTC «Soyuz» was N.N. Yakovlev, from January 2008 to the present head of the undertaking is L.N. Shvedov.