OAO Bank Vozrozhdenie reported Dec. 16, 2014 that its board elected Otar Margania chairman and Mukhadin Eskindarov deputy chairman. Margania has been on the bank's board since 2003 and is also the dean of the economics faculty of St.

Petersburg State University. Eskindarov has been a board member since 2010. Bank Vozrozhdenie said Dec.

5, 2014 that founder and Chairman Dmitry Orlov died at age 71.