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May 21 2003 13:04
Moscow

Personnel appointments

Sergey V. Kupriyanov was appointed press secretary and Department of Information Policy Deputy Head by Alexey Miller, Gazprom's Management Committee Chairman. Natalya Selivanova who was holding a post of press secretary, was moved to another position. Sergey Kupriyanov was born in 1974 in the town of Vyazma in the Smolensk region. Graduate of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Techniques, who specialized in the economics simulation in the Institute for System Analysis Russian Academy of Sciences.

In 1996, Sergey Kupriyanov worked as an analyst and a Department Head of the Consulting agency «Sobolev».

Since 1997, the editorial board member of the Securities markets journal and Deputy Director General of the Business relations agency (consulting services Investor Relations). Since 2000, First Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Editor and the Analytic Service Head of the Publishing House RTsB, Editor–in Chief of Management of the company journal. In 2003 the Counselor Head of the department of information policy. Sergey Kupriyanov is married and has a son. His hobby is windsurfing and photography. «I am sure that such specialist present in our Group, who is professional in the investment business and corporate management will help to better inform business-society on positive changes in the company guidance he will be working on»- said Alexey Miller, Gazprom's Management Committee Chairman.

Information Directorate, OAO Gazprom