Kommersant newspaper published the annual citation ratings. In the rating «The Most Cited Business Leaders of Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Region» Sergey Voronkov, President of the Russian Union of Exhibitions and Fairs, General Director of ExpoForum International was ranked 13th and became the only representative of the convention and exhibition industry included into the study.

 

The citation rating includes people whose activity in the past year gained the most attention of business community.

The regional establishment representatives are ranked according to the statistics of being cited in the key business mass media presented by the North-West editor’s offices within the period from January 1, 2023 till January 1, 2024: Kommersant, Business Petersburg, RBK and Fontanka. Counting is made manually on the websites of media and in the service of Integrum agency.

Besides, Sergey Voronkov ranked 5th in the rating «The Most Close Associates of Authorities». This rating takes into account mentioning of business leaders of Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Region in mass media in the same paragraph with the Governor of Saint Petersburg Aleksandr Beglov and/or the Governor of the Leningrad Region Aleksandr Drozdenko in 2023.

The 5th place was also held by Sergey Voronkovin the rating «The Most Charitable». It included Representatives of the regional establishment ranked in accordance with the statistics of being mentioned in the key business mass media (Kommersant, Business Petersburg, RBK and Fontanka) with the words from a semantic cloud «Charity» in SCAN-Interfax.