Gazprom personnel appoitments

A. Miller, Chairman of the Management Committee, Gazprom, at a working meeting held today announced the ahead of schedule termination of Mezhregiongaz’s executive authority and employment contract between Gazprom and Nikolai Nikolayevich Gornovskii, General Director of OOO Mezhregiongaz. Mr. Anatolii Vadimovich Khripunov, Deputy General Director, Mezhregiongaz, was appointed acting General Director.

A. V. Khripunov has worked in Mezhregiongaz since 1997. He was Director, Ivanovo branch office, Mezhregiongaz, Commercial Director, OOO Mezhregiongaz, and Director, executive functions, with the company. He was Deputy General Director of OOO Mezhregiongas since 1998.

Information Directorate, OAO Gazprom