| Moscow, 10 August 2005. The Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM) of Russia registered on 9 August 2005 the share issue prospectuses of the companies spun off from OAO "Astrakhanenergo" and OAO "Ryazanenergo".
The regulator registered the prospectuses of uncertificated registered ordinary shares of OAO "Ryazan Energy Retail Company" and OAO "Astrakhan Energy Retail Company" distributed among the shareholders of the companies reorganized through spin-off (OAO "Ryazanenergo" and OAO "Astrakhanenergo", respectively).
1. OAO "Ryazan Energy Retail Company":
- 206,940,220 uncertificated registered preferred shares, par value RUB0.05 per share, for a total value of RUB10,347,011. The state registration number assigned to the share issue is 1-01-50092-?.
2. OAO "Astrakhan Energy Retail Company":
- 773,900,078 uncertificated registered preferred shares, par value RUB0.007 per share, for a total value of RUB5,417,300.546. The state registration number assigned to the share issue is 1-01-55064-?.
The above companies completed their state registration on 11 January 2005. The companies' share issues were registered with the FSFM of Russia on 4 March 2005 and 5 April 2005.
Information for the attention of stock market participants:
Shares in the spin-off companies were distributed among the existing shareholders of the company reorganized through spin-off.
Shareholders in the reorganized regional energo are entitled to receive, for each share of the relevant category (type) held by them, shares of the same category (class) in each of the newly established companies, at a ratio determined in the resolution on the reorganization.
The date on which the shares in the spin-off companies are placed is the date of state registration of the companies established as a result of regional energos' reorganization. The new shares are to be credited to the securityholder accounts with registrars and to the securities safekeeping accounts with securities depositories in accordance with the records in the share register of the regional energo as at such date.
The new shares are to be credited to the securityholder accounts by the Registrar maintaining the share registers of the newly established companies.
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