OREANDA-NEWS. February 01, 2011. Uralsvyazinform (RTS and MICEX: URSI/URSIP, ADR: UVYZY/UVYZYP) – a leading provider of fixed-line and cellular telephony services in the Urals region – hereby announces the results of its extraordinary general meeting of shareholders which was held in Moscow.

In accordance with the agenda of the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders, the powers of the members of the Board of Directors of Uralsvyazinform, which were elected on June 23, 2010 at the annual general meeting of shareholders, were prematurely terminated and a new lineup of the Board of Directors of the company was elected.  Based on the results of voting, 11 people were elected to the Board of Directors of Uralsvyazinform, as follows:

Vladimir V. DUDENKO, Head of the Moscow Representative Office of NCH Advisors, Inc.;

Ekaterina S. EROFTEYEVA - Executive Director/Head of the Department of Strategy and Development of Svyazinvest;

Olga G. KOROLEVA – Chief Accountant of Svyazinvest;

Sergey I. KUZNETSOV – member of the National Register of Independent Directors under the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs;

Eduard V. LEBEDEV – advisor to the General Director of Uralsvyazinform;

Mikhail A. LESCHENKO – Deputy General Director of Svyazinvest;

Sergey A. LUKASH – General Director of Uralsvyazinform;

Anatoly A. MILYUKOV – Executive Vice-President of GPB;

 Alexander Yu. PROVOTOROV - CEO of Rostelecom;

Vadim V. SEMENOV, General Director of Svyazinvest;

Evgeny V. YURCHENKO, shareholder.

Vadim Semenov was elected as Chairman of the Board of Directors of  Uralsvyazinform at the first meeting of the board.