Announcement re. Admission of Additional GDRs

NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES

For immediate release

18 February 2011

JSC VTB BANK ANNOUNCES ADMISSION OF ADDITIONAL GLOBAL DEPOSITARY RECEIPTS TO THE OFFICIAL LIST AND THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE

London / Moscow - JSC VTB Bank (the "Company"), today announces that 444,862,013 of its global depositary receipts (the "GDRs"), each representing an interest in 2,000 ordinary shares, which are immediately fungible with the Company's existing GDRs, have been admitted to the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and to trading on the regulated market of the London Stock Exchange.

Trading in the GDRs on the International Order Book commenced at 08.00 am GMT today, under the ticker "VTBR".

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