The Chairman of the Gazprom Board of Directors Alexey Miller is admitted as the most highly-paid Russian top manager. According to the Forbes data he has earned $17,7 million this year.
Igor Sechin (in the picture) holding the post of the Chief Executive Officer of the company Rosneft is on the second place. This year he has earned $13 million (a year earlier the received amount was well above - $17,5 million). Besides of Sechin, the pace is taken by the Chairman of the Management Board of VTB Bank Andrey Kostin. However the title assigned the place just officially – it didn't get a chance to count the received money for a year (VTB keeps the lid on information about the top manager's payment). It's known that totally all the bank's managing directors has earned about $100 million. Last year according to the Forbes' estimates Kostin got $21 million.
The third place is taken by Herman Gref, the Chairman of the Executive Board of Sberbank. The top manager has received $11 million this year.
Dmitry Razumv, the Director General of the company ONEXIM, takes the fourth place – he has earned $10 million this year.
The fifth place is occupied by Ivan Streshinsky, the Chief Executive Officer of USM Advisors, the founder of which is the businessman Alisher Usmanov. This year Streshinsky has gained $10 million.
Vladislav Solovyov, the Director General of UC Rusal, takes the sixth place. This year he has succeeded to get $7,4 million.
The seventh place comes to the President of Joint-Stock Financial Corporation Systema Mikhail Shamolin. In the preceding year the money reward of this top manager was equal to $7,4 million.
Mikhail Zadornov, the Chairman of the Management Board of VTB24 Bank, has earned $6,5 million this year. In such a way the top manager takes the eighth place.
One more leader of the financial institute is the Chairman of the Gazprom Board of Directors Andrey Akimov who takes the ninth place. His work has been estimated at $6,3 million.
The tenth place comes to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Otkritie Financial Corporation Ruben Aganbegyan. As Forbes figured out, he had been paid $6 million.
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