Koltsovo international airport (part of the Airports of Regions holding) became a winner of Number One Awards instituted by Urals-based industrialists and entrepreneurs. The awarding event was timed to the Russian Entrepreneurship Day and was held in Yekaterinburg.
The Expert Board of the Awards named Koltsovo airport the best one in the Number One in the Consumer Market category. The board members – representatives of the Urals business community – thought high of the Yekaterinburg air hub after reviewing its business performance and its positive impact upon the living standards of people in the Urals. One of the important criteria was brand awareness beyond the Urals regions and Russia as well as national and foreign media citation indices.
Number One Awards were instituted by Sverdlovsk Region Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and the Urals Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 2016 and is rightly believed to be one of the most prestigious and independent awards in the business community. The mission of the Awards is consolidating the effort of the Urals-based industrialists and entrepreneurs to improve the business environment, to heighten the status of Urals business in the country and beyond, and to maintain the balance of interests between the society, authorities and business.
Koltsovo has already won prestigious awards in 2019. Thus in February the freight terminal of Koltsovo was recognized as the best in Russia within the national Air Gate of Russia Awards; in March the Yekaterinburg air hub was named the best regional airport of Russia and CIS, according to World Airport Awards, and in April it was celebrated as the best airport with traffic ranging from 2 to 15 million passengers, according to The Wings of Russia Awards.