NLMK (LSE: NLMK), one of the leading global steel companies, announces the results of its Board of Directors meeting held on 5 March 2015. The Board has approved the following list of candidates to be voted on at the 2015 Annual General Shareholder Meeting (AGM):

Candidates to be elected to the NLMK Board of Directors:

- Mr. Oleg Bagrin
- Mr. Helmut Wieser
- Mr. Nikolai Gagarin
- Mr. Karl Doering
- Mr. Vladimir Lisin
- Mr. Karen Sarkisov
- Mr. Benedict Sciortino
- Mr. Franz Struzl;

Candidate to be elected NLMK President/CEO (Chairman of the Management Board):

- Mr. Oleg Bagrin;

Candidates to be elected to the Internal Audit Commission:

- Mr. Vladimir Markin
- Ms. Galina Shipilova
- Mr. Sergey Nesmeyanov
- Ms. Natalia Krasnykh
- Mr. Vladislav Ershov.

The Board also took the decision to hold the Annual General Shareholders' Meeting on 5 June 2015. The list of persons entitled to participate at the AGM will be prepared on the basis of the NLMK Shareholder Register as of 17 April 2015. The AGM agenda will be approved by the Board and published later.

The Board of Directors also approved a number of related-party transactions.