Federal Grid Announces Management Board Changes

Federal Grid Announces Management Board Changes

13 September 2012, Moscow - Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System ("Federal Grid Company" or "the Company") (MICEX-RTS, LSE: FEES), announces that on 11 September 2012 its Board of Directors approved changes to the composition of its Management Board.

The Board of Directors approved the dismissal of the following Management Board members:

1) Eugeniy Zhuikov, General Director of the Urals Power Transmission Lines Branch of Federal Grid Company;

2) Samuil Zilberman, General Director of the Siberia Power Transmission Lines Branch of Federal Grid Company;

3) Dmitry Gurevitch, Deputy Chairman of Management Board of Federal Grid Company.

The Board of Directors also approved the appointment of the following Management Board members:

1) Andrey Murov, First Deputy Chairman of the Management Board;

2) Sergey Sergeev, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board;

3) Vladimir Shukshin, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board;

4) Nikolai Varlamov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board.

Biographies of the newly-appointed members of the Management Board will be published on the Federal Grid Company website in the near future.

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About Federal Grid Company

Federal Grid Company is the operator and manager of Russia's unified electricity transmission grid system, including high voltage transmission lines, and holds the status of a natural monopoly.

The Company's assets include over 124,000 km of transmission lines and 854 substations with over 322 GVA of 35-750 volt transformer capacity. Based on the length of transmission lines and installed transformer capacity, Federal Grid is the largest publicly traded electricity transmission company in the world.

Federal Grid's business is to provide electricity transmission and technological connection services. It maintains and develops the grid system and supervises grid facilities and infrastructure in 73 regions of Russia, covering a territory of 13.6 million square kilometres. Its customers are regional distribution companies, electricity suppliers and large industrial enterprises.

Since 1 January 2010, Federal Grid has operated under a 5-year regulatory asset base (RAB) model.

The Company was incorporated in June 2002 as part of reorganisation of Russia's electrical power industry. The largest shareholder, with a 79.55% stake, is the Russian Federation Government.

Federal Grid Company's ordinary shares are listed on the MICEX-RTS stock exchange under the ticker FEES and the Company's GDRs are traded on the London Stock Exchange under the same FEES symbol. The Company's shares are included in the MSCI Emerging Markets and MSCI Russia indices.

In 2011 the Company's IFRS revenue for 2011 was RUB 139,571 million (up 23% compared to 2010), adjusted EBITDA as RUB 83,760 million (a 24% increase from 2010), and adjusted net profit was RUB 38,241 million (up 37% on 2010).

Further information can be found at www.federal-grid.com