OREANDA-NEWS. 2013 Annual Report of OAO Severstal, one of the world's leading vertically integrated steel and steel-related mining companies, has been named "The best annual report in non-financial sector" at the special award held by "Expert RA Group of Rating Agencies" (RAEX).

Annual reports of more than a hundred companies took part in the competition for the award. First the jury selected long-list of 30 most interesting works and then shortened it to 12. Among the main candidates for "The best annual report in non-financial sector" award were NLMK and Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System, who took the second and the third places accordingly.

Vladimir Zaluzhsky, Head of IR of Severstal, commented: "Severstal makes every effort to help investors and partners to facilitate monitoring of the company performance. Annual report is one of the tools that help us to achieve this goal. Creating this document our team has applied best international practices to provide in it complete information about the company as promptly as possible".

Severstal has published its Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2013 on the company's corporate website on April, 17.