OREANDA-NEWS. October 27, 2009. Yekaterinburg (Ural Federal District, Russia) - ОАО "IDGC of Urals" (RTS and MICEX: MRKU) reports on the results of BoD session, reported the press-centre of IDGC of Urals.

BoD meeting decided to increase the Management Board membership. At present the Management Board is as follows:

Valeriy RODIN, General Director at ОАО "IDGC of Urals"

Yuri LEBEDEV, Deputy General Director for Technical Issues - Chief Operating Officer at ОАО "IDGC of Urals"

Sergei SEMERIKOV, Deputy General Director for Capital Construction, Strategic Development and Investments at ОАО "IDGC of Urals"

Sergei ZOLOTAREV, Deputy General Director for Development and Service Sales at ОАО "IDGC of Urals"

Olga ABROSIMOVA, Chief Accountant at ОАО "IDGC of Urals"

Aleksey KRASNIKOV, Deputy General Director for Security and Controlling at ОАО "IDGC of Urals"

Evgeniy POPOV, Deputy General Director for Corporate Governance at ОАО "IDGC of Urals"

Oleg ZHDANOV, Deputy General Director - Director of Permenergo Subsidiary at ОАО "IDGC of Urals"

Igor BUTAKOV, Deputy General Director - Director of Chelyabenergo Subsidiary at ОАО "IDGC of Urals"

Oleg MOSHINSKY, Deputy General Director - Director of Sverdlovenergo Subsidiary at ОАО "IDGC of Urals"
 
This increase in membership will enable us:

1. To elaborate on issues related to increase of energy reliability and maximum decrease of network equipment depreciation.

2. To take into account opinions of subsidiaries' directors on the issues being the competence of the Management Board, since subsidiaries' directors have a more detailed information on energy networks in the service area.

3. To take more rational and efficient decisions on the current Company's activities.
 
The Board of Directors also took decision to increase Reliability Committee membership, having included Aleksandr FILINKOV, director for mode management - chief subsidiary dispatcher at ОАО "SO UES" ODO of Urals, and Aleksandr ERMAKOV, head of section at Department for Capital Investment at ОАО "Holding IDGC". The current reliability committee is as follows:

Olga ZUIKOVA, Head of Production Control and Labor Protection Department at ОАО "Holding MRSK"

Yuri LEBEDEV, Deputy General Director for Technical Issues - Chief Operating Officer at ОАО "IDGC of Urals"

Viktor OVCHINNIKOV, Deputy Chief Engineer for Technical Monitoring, Production Control and Labor Protection at ОАО "IDGC of Urals"

Evgeny LUGOVOI, Investment analyst at Moscow representative office of "E.D.M. Electricity Distribution Management (Cyprus) Limited"

Aleksandr FILINKOV, director for mode management - chief subsidiary dispatcher at ОАО "SO UES" ODO of Urals.

Aleksandr ERMAKOV, head of section at Department for Capital Investment at ОАО "Holding IDGC".
 
This increase in reliability committee will enable us to elaborate on issues of United Energy System function reliability.