Moscow - June 20, 2012 - The Russian based international hotel chain AZIMUT announces the appointment of new General Director for its first hotel in Moscow.

Mr. Bakanov has more than ten years’ experience in the hospitality industry. He began his career in restaurant business in Germany. In 2004 has joined AZIMUT team in Samara, from 2008 until 2011 served as Deputy Director of 1000-rooms hotel AZIMUT in Saint Petersburg. In 2011 was appointed as a managing director of AZIMUT Hotel Novyi Bereg in Moscow Region. Since June 2012 serves as General Director of AZIMUT Moscow Tulskaya Hotel.

Mr. Bakanov will be responsible for the overall business operations, solving strategic issues and improving the profitability of the hotel.

AZIMUT Moscow Tulskaya Hotel is the first chain hotel in Moscow. The hotel is located in 5 km from the Kremlin in the loft-quarter "Danilovskaya manufactory" in a historic building built in 1867. The hotel offers 144 functional rooms of the first generation Smart and Mediterranean cuisine restaurant “Manufactory”.  Wi-Fi Internet is free throughout the hotel.

AZIMUT Hotels was founded in 2004. Currently it comprises hotels of business class in 23 cities in Austria, Germany and Russia with a total of over 5500 rooms. AZIMUT Hotels runs both hotels of its own possession and as a long-term leaseholder. Chairman of the Board of Directors AZIMUT Hotels - Alexander Klyachin.

AZIMUT Hotels in Russia (Astrakhan, Vladivostok, Voronezh, Kostroma, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhy Novgorod, Samara, Stavropol, Ufa); in Germany (Berlin, Dresden, Cologne, Munich, Nuremberg, Erding); in Austria (Vienna, Salzburg and Zattledt); AZIMUT-projects in Moscow, Sochi and Kiev.