OREANDA-NEWS. LUKOIL President Vagit Alekperov has been put on a list of Russia's top business leaders whose activities span the country and produce a significant impact on the national economy, the LUKOIL press-service announces. It happened upon a mutual consent of some 400 experts involved in compiling the list of Russia's best professional managers. It was the eighth time such a list was drawn jointly with the Association of Managers of Russia and the Kommersant Publishing House.

Also on the list are five more LUKOIL executives: Sergei Kukura, First Vice-President of LUKOIL Alexander Matytsyn,  Vice-President of LUKOIL, Andrey Kuzyaev, Vice-President of LUKOIL, the President of LUKOIL Overseas Holding Alexander Vasilenko, the Head of Public Relations Department of LUKOIL Anatoly Moskalenko and others.

The full list consists of names of 1,000 Best Managers of Russia and serves the purpose of impartially gauging the professional skills of the country's top executives and also summing up their achievements in their respective fields of expertise in the year past.