Gazprom’s Headquarters host a Board of Directors’ meeting.

The Board of Directors adopted a resolution to hold the Company’s annual General Shareholders’ Meeting (GSM) on June 25, 2004, in Moscow.

The list of persons entitled to take part in the GSM will be composed based on the Shareholders’ Register to be filed by the end of May 7, 2004.

The Board of Directors also approved candidate nominations for the Company’s Board of Directors and Revision Commission, to be voted for at the annual GSM.

The GSM agenda is as follows:

Approval of Annual Report, financial accounts and profit distribution; dividend payments; remuneration of the Board of Directors and Revision Commission members; approval of auditors; amendments to Gazprom’s Articles of Association; election of the Board of Directors and Revision Commission members.

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The list of candidates for Gazprom’s Board of Directors, to be voted for at the annual General Shareholders’ Meeting:

1.	Akimov Andrey Igorevich	Gazprombank’s Management Committee Chairman
2.	Ananenkov Alexander Georgievich	Deputy Chairman of Gazprom’s Management Committee
3.	Bergmann Burckhard	Chairman of the Management Committee of Ruhrgas AG
4.	Valovaya Tatiana Dmitrievna	Head of Administration of the Government of the Russian Federation
5.	Gazizullin Farit Rafikovich	Property Relations Minister of the Russian Federation
6.	Gref German Oskarovich	Economic Development and Trade Minister of the Russian Federation
7.	Karpel Elena Evgenievna	Head of Economic Expert Analysis and Pricing Department
8.	Kleiner Vadim Georgievich	Hermitage Capital Management’s Corporate Research Director
9.	Kosarev Sergey Borisovich	Deputy Property Relations Minister of the Russian Federation
10.	Levitskaya Alexandra Yurievna	First Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation
11.	Medvedev Dmitry Anatolievich	Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation
12.	Miller Alexey Borisovich	Gazprom’s Management Committee Chairman
13.	Pavlova Olga Petrovna	Head of Asset Management and Corporate Relations Department
14.	Ryan Charles	Chairman and CEO of the United Financial Group
15.	Ryazanov Alexander Nikolaevich	Deputy Chairman of Gazprom’s Management Committee
16.	Sereda Mikhail Leonidovich	Head of Administration of Gazprom’s Management Committee
17.	Ustyuzhanin Gennady Stepanovich	Deputy Energy Minister of the Russian Federation
18.	Fache Dominique	Vice President of Club de Nice
19.	Fedorov Boris Grigorievich	Gazprom’s Shareholder
20.	Khristenko Viktor Borisovich	Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation
21.	Sherbovich Ilya Viktorovich	President and Head of Investment Banking of the United Financial Group
22.	Yusufov Igor Khanukovich	Energy Minister of the Russian Federation

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