OREANDA-NEWS. September 27, 2007. The TOP-1000 Russian Managers rating is a joint project of Kommersant Publishing House and Russian Managers Association. This rating has been released for the eighth time. It allows to determine the most professional executives of the country, leaders in their respective fields of industry and in functional areas, reported the press-centre of MMK.

The ranking has been conducted using the principle: "The best choose the best" and the evaluations have been made directly by the representatives of the business community, who are really knowledgeable of the achievements, professional reputation, and personal qualities of the candidate.

Victor Rashnikov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC MMK has been included into the business leaders rating category, which lists the leading executives of the largest enterprises of Russia. Vladimir Smakov, Vice - President of the MMK Managing Company for Finance and Economics has been ranked amid top financial directors in the steel sector. Aleksadr Mastruyev, Director for Personnel and Social Programmes of OJSC MMK was included into the rating of the best HR directors. Dmiriy Kaplan, Director for Information Technologies joined the list of the best IT directors and Ivan Senichev, Director for Information and Public Relations of OJSC MMK has been ranked among the leading directors for PR and corporate relations in the Russian metallurgical industry.