On April 12, Vnesheconombank Chairman Vladimir Dmitriev presented Vnesheconombank’s prizes for the superb performances in the 2005-2006 theater season to soloists of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers Victoria Yastrebov and Andrei Ilyshnikov.
Victoria Yastrebov was awarded the prize for playing the part of Violetta in Verdi’s opera La Traviata and Andrei Ilyshnikov for his part in Verdi’s opera Falstaff.
For more than seven years Vneshedonomban has been helping the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers by providing grants, allocating funds for performing arts classes, master classes of outstanding singers and pedagogues, foreign language classes.
Vnesheconombank’s prizes to Mariinsky theater soloists were instituted in the year 2000 and are presented for the sixth time.
Our laureates of the previous years such as Larisa Yudina, Ilya Bannik, Irina Mataeva, Vladislav Sulimsky, Alexei Tanovitsky, Anastasia Belyaeva, Daniil Shtoda, Anna Kiknadze, Dmitri Voropaev have become recognized masters of opera school and won world recognition.
VEB’s assistance to modern arts, young talented performers, painters, and musicians is one of its important lines of charitable activity, the Bank engages in this activity to uphold and develop great traditions of national culture.
Origin: Press Office of Vnesheconombank
Contact person: Svetlana Nikitina
Phone: +7 (495) 208-46-93, Fax: +7 (495) 975-21-34
E-mail: press@veb.ru
Vnesheconombank Fist Deputy Chairman Nikolay Kosov named Best Banker of Russia
Vnesheconombank First Deputy Chairman Nikolay Kosov was named the Best Banker of Russia for the year 2006. Chairman of the Contest’s Organizing Committee, Chairman of the Russian Accounting Chamber Sergei Stepashin presented the award.
The Contest “The Best Banker of Russia» was founded in 2005 by the Expert- Consulting Council under the Chairman of the Russian Accounting Chamber, Publishing House “Financial Control,” the Association of Russian Banks, the Association of Regional Banks of Russia and Journal “Banking Law.” The Contest aims to identify lending institutions’ best executives of the year.
As it was mentioned at the ceremony, Nikolay Kosov was nominated for this award for his major contribution to the development of the national banking sector.
Nikolay Kosov, candidate of economic sciences, has been working in the Bank since 1998. N. Kosov is in charge of many lines of the Bank’s business including investment, planning, human resources recruitment, foreign relations and etc. He made a great contribution to formulating a concept of the development institution being established on the basis of Vnesheconombank.
N. Kosov was awarded the Order of Honour and medals of the Order “For the Services to the Fatherland”, first and second grade for his great contribution to the development of the Russian Federation’s financial system and hard work of many years. On June 30, 2005, he was thanked officially by the order of the Russian President for his achievements in the financial and economic activity and hard work of many years.
Origin: Press Office of Vnesheconombank
Contact person: Svetlana Nikitina
Phone: +7 (495) 208-46-93, Fax: +7 (495) 975-21-34
E-mail: press@veb.ru