OREANDA-NEWS. March 12, 2010. Sergey Kogoghin, Director General of KAMAZ Inc. became “The Manager of the Year – 2009” in the Republic of Tatarstan. “BUSINESS Online”, the popular Tatartstan Internet-newspaper and “Vecherniye Chelny”, the Naberezhnye Chelny newspaper also made special mention of the KAMAZ top manager’s merits having named him “The Person of the Year”.

On 28 December the award presentation ceremony “The Manager of the Year – 2009” took place in Kazan. KAMAZ Director General became the laureate in the nomination “For effective realization of the crisis management program”. The prize was presented by Rustam Minnikhanov, Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan. Mintimer Shaymiyev, President of the Republic of Tatarstan participated in the event.

The editorial staff of the Internet-newspaper “BUSINESS Online” named Sergey Kogoghin one of the business figures who managed to show his worth best of all and start the most important tendencies in the Republic.

“In 2008 it seemed to many people that it was necessary to invent a perpetual motion machine at the minimum in order to save Chelny’s automobile giant, – as is written in the edition. – The situation was even worse than at AvtoVAZ, because trucks are goods of investment demand, and what investments can be in the crisis?”

“Nevertheless, – continues “BUSINESS Online”, – Kogoghin managed to mobilize available facilities and assured a tangible state support having received several heavy orders. At the same time he thinks about KAMAZ’s future: he works on renewal of a model line, reduces costs, and adopts Daimler’s technologies.”

It is noteworthy that the editorial staff of the city’s newspaper “Vecherniye Chelny” was the first who named Sergey Kogoghin “The Person of the Year”.