OREANDA-NEWS. November 21, 2012. Two representatives of NPO Saturn top management entered the list of Russia’s Top 1000 managers. The 13th annual rating of the best managers was released by the Kommersant newspaper in collaboration with the Russian managers association.

The “Machine building” category features Yuri Zelenkov, NPO Saturn chief information officer voted as one of the five best IT directors of 2012 nominated for the realization of innovation-driven projects.

Valery Nikulin, NPO Saturn deputy CEO for corporate management and legal counsel, was rated one of the five best corporate management and legal counsel directors in the “Machine building” category of the annual rating. For the third time Mr. Nikulin was voted one of the best corporate executives among the top managers of Russia’s machine-building industry.

The rating jury was quite representative: the performance of the managers who made it to the TOP 1000 list was assessed by the regional governors and heads of the regional business and public associations.

Research and production association Saturn OJSC – an engine-building company specialized in design, manufacture and aftermarket support of gas-turbine engines for military and civil aviation, the Navy boats and power-generation and gas-pumping installations. NPO Saturn OJSC is part of the United engine corporation managing company OJSC.