Kommersant, a prominent Russian publishing house, came up with its First Rating on Russia’s Top 200 largest banks. Most of the banks that made it into the first hundred are based in Moscow, while only two banks located in Tyumen Region and three banks located in Sverdlovsk Region actually represent the Urals. Yekaterinburg-based SKB-Bank was given the 88th position in terms of its equity capital (the figure exceeded 3 billion RUR on October 1, 2007). As a matter of fact, SKB-Bank was promoted to its current rating from the 69th position it was given in 2006.