In September 2018, he lost the election of the governor of the Khabarovsk Krai to the LDPR candidate Sergei Furgal.

Shport was also the professor of the Russian nongovernmental research interregional public organization Academy of Military Sciences in 2012.

Upon completion of his studies at the technical school, Shport worked as an assembler-riveter at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Production Association named after Yuri Gagarin (KnAAPO).

With his participation, new samples of aviation military equipment of the Su-22, Su-27 series were mastered and launched into mass production, unique vehicles were put on alert and for export: Su-33 (ship version), Su-30MKK and Su-27SM.

On his initiative and under his direct leadership, two conversion programs were launched at KnAAPO: for the assembly of Be-103 (Amphibia) and Su-80 aircraft for 30 passengers for local and regional airlines.

[6] On 19 December 1999, Shport was elected a member of the State Duma of the third convocation in the Komsomolsk-on-Amur single-mandate constituency No.

In 2002, he graduated from the Higher Academic Courses at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces with a degree in Defense and Security of Russia.

On 7 December 2003, Shport was elected to the State Duma for the Komsomolsk-on-Amur single-mandate district, as he joined the United Russia party.

[7] In 2007, in the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, he did not pass on the lists of "United Russia": Regional group No.

[15] On 8 September 2013, the gubernatorial elections were held in the Khabarovsk Krai, in which Shport, with a score of 63.92%, defeated the main rival from the LDPR, State Duma member Sergei Furgal, who gained 19.14%.

In 2009, he became a candidate of technical sciences, having defended his thesis on the topic "Research of the processes of crimping and distribution of pipe blanks in the manufacture of aircraft parts."

In 2007, she became a candidate of medical sciences, having defended her thesis on the topic "Features of the course of an acute reaction to stress in female drivers - participants in road traffic accidents."