138th Hypermarket Opening

Press-release Krasnodar June 19, 2013 OJSC "Magnit" Announces the Opening of the 138th Hypermarket Krasnodar, June 19, 2013: OJSC "Magnit", Russia's largest retailer (the"Company"; MICEX and LSE: MGNT), is pleased to announce the opening of the138th hypermarket of a small format. Please be informed that today the Company has opened its 138th hypermarket of asmall format located at 24/20 Kukunina street, Novomoskovsk, Tula region,Central federal district. Assortment of the hypermarket consists of more than4,200 SKUs, out of which about 90% are food items. There are 19 cash desksinstalled in the sales area. The outlet is owned by the Company. Thehypermarket is open 7 days a week from 9 am to 10 pm. For further information, please contact: Timothy Post Director, Investor Relations e-mail: [email protected] Tel. in Krasnodar +7 (861) 277-45-54, 210-98-10 ext. 7600 Mob.: +7 (961) 511-76-78 Direct line for investors only: +7 (861) 277-45-62 Dina Svishcheva Deputy Director, Investor Relations e-mail: [email protected] Tel. in Krasnodar +7 (861) 277-45-54, 210-98-10 ext. 5101 Mob.: +7-961-511-02-02 Direct line for investors only: +7 (861) 277-45-62 Company description: Magnit is Russia's largest retailer. Founded in 1994 by Sergey Galitskiy, thecompany is headquartered in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar. As of March31, 2013, Magnit operates 18 distribution centers and over 7,000 stores (6,209convenience, 153 hypermarkets, and 713 cosmetics) in more than1,600 cities andtowns throughout 7 federal regions of the Russian Federation. In accordance with its audited IFRS consolidated financial statements foryear-end 2012, Magnit had revenues of $14.43 billion USD and an EBITDA of $1.52billion USD. Magnit's local shares are traded on the Moscow Stock Exchange(MICEX: MGNT) and its GDRs on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: MGNT) and it hasa credit rating from Standard & Poor's of BB. Measured bymarket capitalization, Magnit is now Europe's 2nd largest retailer.