OREANDA-NEWS. November 18, 2009. COMSTAR – United TeleSystems (COMSTAR-UTS, LSE: CMST), the leading supplier of integrated telecommunication solutions in Russia and the CIS, announces that Vitaly Klishin has been appointed the director of COMSTAR-Regions Volga (COMSTAR-Regions is 100% affiliate of COMSTAR-UTS). He took his position on November 16, 2009.

Director of COMSTAR-Regions Volga is in charge of day-to-day management and business development in all company’s cities of presence in the Volga Federal District (VFD). Currently, COMSTAR provides telecommunication services to legal and natural persons in the following VFD localities: Balakovo, Buguruslan, Buzuluk, Dzerzhinsk, Izhevsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Orenburg, Pervomaysky, Samara, Saratov, Sorochinsk, Tolyatti, Ulyanovsk, and Engels. Their total population is about 7 million people.

Viktor Koresh, Vice President for Regional Development of COMSTAR-UTS and Director General of COMSTAR-Regions, comments this appointment as follows: “Vitaly Klishin has an extensive track record and is well known to regional communication companies as an efficient manager. We are happy to have him in our team. Today, director of COMSTAR-Regions Volga faces the challenges of further business development in the Volga Federal District, enhanced performance and increase in profits of the company.”

Vitaly Klishin was born in 1974. In 1996, he graduated from the Volga Institute of Informatics, Radio Engineering and Communication, “Telecommunications Engineer” specialty, magna cum laude. He also has degree certificates of the Samara State Economic Academy in specialties “Accounting and Auditing. Economist” and “State and Municipal Administration”. In 2005, he got MBA degree with the International University in Moscow. He has been working in the communication industry for over 13 years now. He took executive positions in Svyazinform and VolgaTelecom Samara. In 2006, he became the deputy director general – director of VolgaTelecom Udmurt Republic. In 2006-2007, he was the deputy director general – director of VolgaTelecom Nizhny Novgorod. Before joining COMSTAR-Regions, he was the deputy director general – director of VolgaTelecom Samara during two years.