JSC RusHydro (ticker symbol: MICEX-RTS, LSE: HYDR; OTCQX: RSHYY) announces that the additional shares issued by the Company (state registration number 1-01-55038-Å-040D of August 16, 2011) will be included in the Quotation list “A”, Level 1 on MICEX. Preliminary start date of trading is October 2, 2012.

As a result of additional share issue RusHydro placed 27,334,817,715 shares, or 30.71% of the total approved amount.

The consolidation of additional share issue with the principal issue will be authorized by The Federal Financial Markets Service of Russia in 3 months after the state registration of the report on the securities issue results (approximately in early December 2012), after that the shares of additional issue will trade on the MICEX stock exchange within the Quotation list "A", Level 1 as a part of the principal issue of RusHydro.