August 13, 2018. Moscow, Russia. RusHydro Group (hereinafter referred to as the “Group”, ticker symbol: MOEX, LSE: HYDR; OTCQX: RSHYY) announces that it has fully paid the dividend for 2017.

The total amount of dividend paid was RUB 11,225,676,646.041. The number of shares eligible for receiving the dividend for the full year of 2017 was 426,288,813,551.

The total amount of dividend distributed to nominal shareholders and qualified institutional investors was RUB 4,244,654,779.744. Total amount of dividend to other groups of shareholders was RUB 6,949,250,627.24 (after tax).

As PJSC RusHydro and JSC VTB Registrar are missing correct banking or postal details of some shareholders, dividend to these shareholders was returned to the company in compliance with the current legislation. In accordance with the federal law after 3 years unclaimed dividend should be recovered as part of undistributed profit, and the company’s obligations in respect of these dividend payments will be discontinued.

On June 27, 2018, the Annual General Meeting of Shareholder of RusHydro resolved to pay dividends for 2017 in the amount of RUB 0.0263335 per share or 50% of RusHydro Group’s consolidated net profit under IFRS. The dividend record date was set at July 7, 2018.