Gazprom’s Board of Directors’ ordinary meeting will take place on 30 November 2004, at 3:00 pm Moscow time. The meeting agenda will be as follows:

• Updating targeted economic parameters and key investment program parameters, making amendments to the Company’s 2004 budget, addressing Gazprom and its gas production & transmission subsidiaries’ operating results for 2004
• Gazprom’s Draft investment program, budget (financial plan) and cost optimization (reduction) program for 2005; draft investment programs and budgets of gas production & transmission subsidiaries for 2005
• Developing Play 1A of the Urengoy’s Achimov deposits

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