In 2001-2003 he was the Director General of the Russian TV channel NTV and also the Director General of Gazprom Media, a subsidiary media holding of Gazprom (now of Gazprombank) that owned NTV, TNT, NTV Plus, five popular radio stations (including Echo of Moscow), numerous widely circulated news and entertainment publications, and two premier movie theaters in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
There are three banks in the town—branches of Gazprombank, "Khanty-Mansiysky Bank of Revival and Development of the Northern People", and a branch of the Sberbank.