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                                          For Immediate Release - July 24, 2015

               Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant's Board Meeting Decisions                

Chelyabinsk, Russia - July 24, 2015 - Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant (LSE, MICEX:
CHZN), Russia's largest producer of zinc and zinc alloys, announces the
decisions made by the Board of Directors at a meeting on July 23, 2015.

The Board of Directors re-elected Oleg Meluhov as Chairman and Albert Batrshin
as Company Secretary.

The members of the Board of Directors formed the Audit Committee. The following
independent directors joined the Committee:

  * Vladimir Bublik - Chairman of the Committee;
  * Igor Myskin;
  * Vladimir Shvedov.

CZP's Board elected the Management Board which includes:

  * Pavel Izbrekht (General Director);
  * Michael Kabanov (Director for mine-mill activities);
  * Sergey Kondakov (Chief accountant);
  * Ekaterina Korkunova (Head of finance and economic office);
  * Igor Latypov (Security Director);
  * Dzhakhangir Makhmudov (Deputy General Director for commercial and financial
    affairs);
  * Konstantin Rozenberg (Director for human resources and administration);
  * Alexander Zatonskiy (Technical Director).

About Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant

Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant is the leading Russian zinc producer. In 2014 the plant
produced 168,601 tonnes of saleable SHG zinc.

According to consolidated IFRS accounts, revenue in 2014 was RUB 16,508 mln and
EBITDA was RUB 3,825 mln.

Ordinary shares of CZP are traded on the Moscow exchange MICEX-RTS under ticker
CHZN and Global Depository Receipts (GDR) are traded on the London Stock
Exchange under ticker CHZN.

                                                   Investor and Media Contacts:

                                             Natalya Vasilieva, PR, ngv@zinc.ru

                                                        Tel: +7 (351) 799-01-52

                                              Evgeny Ponomarev, IR, eyp@zinc.ru

                                                          Tel: +7 963 998-55-58



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