OREANDA-NEWS. On 16 May 2008 was announced, that the Board of Directors of Vyksa Steel Works (VSW), part of United Metallurgical Company (OMK), scheduled the Company’s Annual General Meeting for June 26, 2008.

The meeting of the Company's shareholders will be held in person. The list of shareholders entitled to participate in the meeting was made as of May 8, 2008.

The meeting of shareholders will address such issues as approval of the VSW Annual Report for 2007 and the Annual Financial Statements (incl. the VSW Profit and Loss Statement for 2007), VSW profit appropriation based on the 2007 results, approval of VSW’s restated Articles of Association, election of members of the VSW Board of Directors and Internal Audit Commission, approval of the VSW Auditor for 2008, and approval of transactions.

The persons who have been proposed for the new 9-member VSW Board of Directors are as follows: Anatoly Sedykh, Chairman of the OMK Board of Directors; Valery Anisimov, Member of the OMK Board of Directors; Vladimir Kochetkov, VSW Executive Director; Dmitry Chernyshev, OMK Vice President; Vladimir Markin, OMK President; Natalia Yeryomina, OMK Vice President; Zhanna Tsapina, Head of the VSW Internal Audit Service; Yevgeny Shevelev, Member of the OMK Board of Directors; and Yulia Shkhiyants, OMK Director for Economy and Finance.

The Board of Directors has proposed that FBK, Moscow, be approved as the VSW Auditor for 2008.