The Board of Directors of LLC Bashneft-Polyus, a joint venture of JSOC Bashneft and OJSC Lukoil which develops the R. Trebs and A. Titov oilfields in the Nenets Autonomous District, approved Vladimir Nesterenko as the company’s new General Director.

The former General Director of LLC Bashneft-Polyus Vitaly Litvinenko decided to continue his career outside Bashneft.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Nesterenko was born in 1972. In 1998 he graduated from the Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical
University of Oil and Gas (IFNTUOG). He started his career as an oil and gas production operator, worked as an oil and gas production supervisor; Mr. Nesterenko also was a line manager, the chief engineer, and the Deputy General Director for Production in several oil and gas companies of the Nenets Autonomous District and the Komi Republic. From 2005 through December 2012, Mr. Nesterenko headed the central engineering service and held the position of the acting First Deputy General Director for Production and the Chief Engineer of LLC RN-Severnaya Neft.