MOSCOW. August 5 (Interfax) - The capitalization of the Russian stock market, based on Russian Trading System trading, increases 1.49%, or by $8.498 billion from the previous session, to $579.365 billion on Wednesday.

The leaders in market value were Gazprom , with $130.441 billion, Rosneft , with $68.888 billion, and Lukoil , with $44.017 billion.

Capitalization has increased 54.50% from $374.988 billion on December 31, 2008.