Ural Bank of Sberbank of Russia held a solemn awarding ceremony for the winners of Small Business Leader 2006. The applications for the contest could be submitted between July 1 and September 30, 3006 by small businesses and sole traders who had an account in Sberbank or opened it within the contest period. The competition was held in all the areas where the bank has its subsidiaries – Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, and Kurgan Regions, and in the Republic of Bashkortostan.