OREANDA-NEWS. On June 27, 2007 The Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of OAO “TMK” was held in Moscow, reported the press-centre of TMK.

Shareholders elected the Board of Directors and the Auditing Committee, as well as approved the annual report and financial statements, for the 2006 financial year. OOO "Ernst&Young" was approved to be OAO “TMK” auditor.

The AGM approved a 2006 dividend of 4,3 RUR per TMK share (1 GDR = 4 shares). A total of RUR 3,753,904,300.00 shall be paid out as dividend by August 24th 2007.

The AGM agreed that the Board of Directors shall be comprised of ten members, including four independent directors. Piotr Galitzine, Andrey Kaplunov, Adrian Cobb, Josef Marous, Sergey Papin, Dmitriy Pumpyanskiy, Geoffrey Townsend, Igor Khmelevsky, Alexander Shiryaev, and Mukhadin Eskindarov were re-elected to the Board of Directors. At the Board meeting held following the AGM, Dmitriy Pumpyanskiy was re-elected as Chairman of the Board.

OAO “TMK”’s 2006 Annual Report for the year ended December 31 2006 is published and available today.

The Annual Report is accessible online on TMK’s website; http://www.tmk-group.com/AnReports.php and will be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:

Financial Services Authority
25 North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5HS