Moscow-July 31, 2006 – OAO Svyazinvest: Evgeny Alexandrovich Chechelnitsky came into office as deputy general director at OAO Svyazinvest.

E.Chechelnitsky will oversee the following business areas:

- development strategy of OAO Svyazinvest;

- the holding’s tariff policy.

Fact sheet:

Evgeny Alexandrovich Chechelnitsky was born on December, 1973.

In 1995 he graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance. In 1998 E.Chechelnitsky completed a post-graduate course at the same university.

From 2000 to 2004 Chechelnitsky was employed as deputy head of the economic and investment policy department of Russia’s IT and Telecommunications Ministry.

Since 2004 he has been holding a post of deputy head of the Federal Service for Supervision in the Communications Industry.

Holds a Ph.D. in Economics.

OAO Svyazinvestis the largest telecommunications holding of Russia. It comprises 7 mega-regional companies: OAO CenterTelecom, OAO North-West Telecom, OAO VolgaTelecom, OAO South Telecommunications Company, OAO Uralsvyazinform, OAO Sibirtelecom, OAO Dalsvyaz, the national ILD and DLD telecom provider OAO Rostelecom, 4 telecom operators not involved in the merger and industry design institute Giprosvyaz.

Svayzinvest companies render services to over 80% of Russia’ population. They are licensed to provide local and intra-zonal telecommunication services, aswell as data transmission, Internet access, wireless subscriber access and mobile communications services.

The mobile subscriber base of Svyazinvest subsidiary and affiliated companies exceeds 7.7 mln

Installed capacity of the holding’s public network stands at 36 mln lines.

The holding employs a workforce of 319,000.

For more information, please view https://www.svayzinvest.ru.