The Finance magazine came up with a list of Russia’s largest companies whose shares can be bought and sold freely and whose market capitalization comes to more than $1bn. URSA Bank’s capitalization ($2.4bn, or 58.7 billion RUR) was declared Russia’s 73d largest. As regards the banking niche, URSA Bank was called Russia’s 6th worthiest bank. Sberbank, with its capitalization of $96.7bn, or 2.4 trillion RUR, was definitely the first, followed by VTB ($32bn, or 794 billion RUR), Bank of Moscow ($6.9bn, or 171.7 billion RUR), Rosbank ($5.1bn, or 126.5 billion RUR), and Uralsib ($4.7bn, or 117.5 billion RUR).

As for the general rating, it was topped by Gazprom, with its market capitalization of $280.6bn, or 6.9 trillion RUR. The rating comprised 124 businesses altogether.